This company, which was the first one occupied by Soviet-style “factory councils” in 1920, ended its 1980 strike with the “March of the 40,000.” In 1969, this brand took over an upscale competitor whose Aurelia appears in the era-defining film The Easy Life. This brand’s 1958 contract for a plant in Kragujevac (“KRAH-goo-yeh-VOTS”) created Zastava’s Fića (“fee-chah”). A RAI (“rye”) game show awarded a prize nicknamed the “Mickey Mouse” from this brand, which was led by a menswear icon dubbed the “Rake of the Riviera.” This brand’s billion-dollar 1966 “deal of the century” produced VAZ’s Lada product line in the Soviet city of Tolyatti. This brand, which got 15 million dollars in the largest Marshall Plan loan, built the Seicento (“say-CHEN-toh”) and Cinquecento (“chin-kway-CHEN-toh”) at its factory in Lingotto. For 10 points, the postwar Italian economic miracle relied on what Turin-based maker of affordable cars? ■END■
ANSWER: Fiat [or Fiat Automobiles S.p.A; or Fabbrica Italiana Automobili di Torino; or Italian Automobile Factory of Turin; reject “Fiat Chrysler” or “Stellantis”] (Clues include Lancia’s Aurelia in Il Sorpasso, the Fiat 500’s nickname of “Topolino,” Lascia o raddoppia?, Gianni Agnelli, and the Fiat 600 and Fiat 500.)
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