How to tell if your shoe repair guy is from Eastern Europe ???

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Brought my riding boots in to have the soles re-glued and the cobbler needed to know the pick-up date I preferred.

I pulled out my iPhone to check the calendar and the cobbler saw the image on my home screen, i.e. the muzzle of my SVT-40 against the sky at dusk. He immediately asked if it was an SVD. I corrected him by saying it was an SVT-40.

We then had a 5 minute conversation on the merits of the SVD vs the SVT. He was impressed that I shoot WWII (an older) vintage Russian rifles for sport and hunting. I think we spent more time talking guns then talking shoe repair.

I'm going back there today to pick up my boots. I'll be sure to bring along some better pictures of my babies.
 
There are a lot of Russian gun nuts in Winnipeg. Actually anywhere that I've been and run into Russians, theres always been good times and good talk.
 
The best time I had with Russians was a few years ago when we had a BBQ for Lada enthusiasts in a City of Winnipeg park.

Several Russian families showed up to use the BBQ next to ours and all the men gravitated to our vehicles to inspect them and give us pointers !!!

Sure wish I had brought vodka with me... we could have toasted our cars "à la Russian" !!!
 
I have quite a few Eastern European friends and have noticed that they are extremely nationalistic about their gun designs, for example you mention to a Czech or a Slovak that that the AK is better than the VZ58, or tell a Russian the opposite, and look out kurwa/cyka!
 
It amazes me, how many Eastern Europeans gun nutz that see my SVT 40 think it's a SVD.... That's like an American Vietnam Vetran seeing an M1 Garand, and thinking it's a M1a.
 
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SVT is not known very well in Russia. War movies mostly show PPSh and Mosins, SVT never was in service after WWII and civilian gun ownership was strictly forbidden by communists.
 
Yes but I forgot to add, after i correct them, they will go on telling me all this cool information about Russian guns and the SVD, an how they served in the army..... Lol
 
warrenlikesboats said:
Yes but I forgot to add, after i correct them, they will go on telling me all this cool information about Russian guns and the SVD, an how they served in the army..... Lol
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And if you'd have drink or two with them... the stories you'd hear :D

our shop class teacher back in school was one of those story tellers - one day he was Tu-95 pilot, another day - he was T-55 gunner etс :)))
 
870P said:
I have quite a few Eastern European friends and have noticed that they are extremely nationalistic about their gun designs, for example you mention to a Czech or a Slovak that that the AK is better than the VZ58, or tell a Russian the opposite, and look out kurwa/cyka!
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We are nationalistic all the way. Remember Yugoslavian war and now problems in Ucraina. Quebec nationalism is a joke.
 
Umka said:
And if you'd have drink or two with them... the stories you'd hear :D

our shop class teacher back in school was one of those story tellers - one day he was Tu-95 pilot, another day - he was T-55 gunner etс :)))
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Whahahhaahhaaa :) and next will be Brezhnev's bodyguard i guess :)
 
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