Carpets are for the floor!!!!

Russia has a lot of cultural influences from Persia, from the times of the several Persian empias that ruled parts of modern day Russia. Mideasterners also do the same with Persian carpets for decoration.

Ruskiequestionsarecrunchy Wrote:
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> Carpets are for the floor!!!!

To insulate their walls.

Most Soviet-era Russian construction is cinderblock or concrete, which does very little to isolate the inhabitants from the notoriously vicious Russian winters.

So they can have something to look at during their vodka induced highs.

Sure, carpets cost money, too, but you can take them with you when you move. Paint? Not so much.
Russians have always been poor - even more so under Putin.

The get it from carpet bombing, like they are doing in syria, Go Ruskies .

Paint wasn't used much; wallpaper was preferred. Wall rugs were a middle class status symbol. To the extent there was a middle class. Similar to suburban lawns here in the '70s.

Soviet construction derived from Le Corbusier concrete jungle for the masses (cinder block - panels, really) is similar to public housing mid-rise buildings. The rugs aren't used on exterior walls due to windows, so they don't do anything for drafts. Most of those are around windows, anyway. They do work well for sound.

That's especially true for communal apartments, which weren't contemporary concrete construction. Think multi-bedroom millennial storage living quarters, but for unrelated families (one family per bedroom), shared bathroom, shared kitchen, no cable, no wifi. Rugs on the wall allowed whispering without being overheard by the neighbors. Also, you could fuck, masking the noise with a kerosene heater -> gramophone -> radio -> tv... That was for the intelligentsia. The proletariat didn't have such compunctions.

I don't know how this worked in Iran, but I'll guess there's overlap. It was probably a symbol of having arrived somewhere on the social ladder. Like those surveys from once-upon-a-time before the Internets: do you have a refrigerator, TV, car, VCR... wall rug.

just to put that into perspective. i had a gym teacher also wrestler instructor (who kids called gay and made jokes about) who was said to use news paper to insulate his crackerbox home after his ex left him and took the nice home with her

when asked if he used newpaper for insulation he said yes he did and it worked well

if mold growth is retarted by cold you can get away with that maybe

a dry-wall protective barrier against various earth spores is better though

They're too poor to buy paint Wrote:
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> Sure, carpets cost money, too, but you can take
> them with you when you move. Paint? Not so much.
> Russians have always been poor - even more so
> under Putin.

Don't tell rightard traitors that. They think Putin is a God send.

Yes, it's weird.

I think that this is their tradition, or the interior. I don't like that. It is better to already contact http://andrealauerdesign.com for a really cool interior design, and then you enjoy every minute spent in your apartment.

It is one of he biggest secrets of mysterious russian soul, I think.

I guess it was a part of the fashion of those times. I do not think many Russians still have rugs on the walls. Also, now only Russians liked that. I saw several photo sessions in some Slavic countries like Poland, Macedonia. People took pictures with those rugs in the background. That looks crazy but funny. They wear true fur and have bright make-up. I have seen such Persian rugs on https://www.dorisleslieblau.com/. I am not sure they are the same, but look very similar. As that gallery has a big authority in the world of rugs, all those rugs might be original.

I looked at a house for sale in Annandale outside the beltway that had carpet on the walls. It was an otherwise nice house in a nice neighborhood.