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Афтар, пешы исчо!Originally Posted by VendingMachine
I have to conclude you have never been to Russia. The winters are so bitter cold here that people wearing modern Western boots wouldn't last 30 minutes here. Wives of some foreign diplomats have lost their feet to frostbite sporting their ridiculous Western boots with fur on the inside. Not to mention the Italian tourists with their silly pointy shoes who usually faint within 10 minutes of leaving the airport. In Russia special felt boots are worn. They were invented many centuries ago by a great Chinese boot maker Wa Len Kee whom Peter the Great brought to Russia after his famous trips to China to sponsor the construction of the Great Wall of China. In the summer special sandals are worn. They have a very sensual name laptease. In the spring and autumn we like to wear our very stylish traditionally Russian boots called kirzachellos.Everything that looks pretty and modern but with synthetic fur on the inner side.But what kind of the shoes do they wear than? Mеховые сапоги?15 years ago.
Maybe babushkaz da dedushkaz who remember Lenin and Stalin only.
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You were right: Pointy Shoes are a terribly important subject.
) of a young Russian friend, who was wearing the loveliest little black boots (and yes, with synthetic fur on the inside 
). 
Sigh. 
No pretty little black boots for me. 
