Many years have passed since the end of the Secondworld war. Nevertheless, the echoes of it still come to us. These are the graves of unknown soldiers, and fragments, and shells left on the battlefield, and craters from bombs, and the memory of surviving veterans. Soldier's letters are another reminder of those terrible years. They wrote them on simple scraps of paper. Every front-line soldier knew how to fold a letter in a triangle. They were kept by relatives in treasured boxes, knots, kerchiefs. How to fold a letter in a triangle, and knew at home. Now, rereading these lines, we can imagine with horror how terrible people lived in the period of the Black War ...
So, how to fold a letter in a triangle was known ineach family. And until now, these messages, yellowed from time, written in pencil, are stored as a memory of our heroes. How people were waiting for letters from the front! These triangles are one of the main symbols of that terrible, terrible era. Not to lose each other, people were helped only by military field mail. In each front-line administrative center, sorting posts were created. The communications workers worked hard and assiduously in the most terrible conditions.
Yes, the times were just nightmarish.Delay of correspondence or delivery of it for other purposes was considered an official crime. Envelopes and cards, of course, was not enough. Publishers, of course, began to produce them in considerable numbers. However, ammunition, canned goods, crackers were the first to arrive at the front line. At that moment, it was thought out how to fold a letter with a triangle. In the people such a message was called soldier's.
Front-line workers threw letters into mailboxes,They were built from improvised means and fortified in convenient places. Every day, the postman selected "triangles", sekretki and postcards. At the field station they were processed by calendar stamps, packed in sacks and sent by transport to the base. From there the correspondence was sent to the sorting points and then followed in the mail cars. Hundreds of kilometers under the bullets of the enemy were "triangles", and they knew the price of everything!
With what impatience were waiting for relatives and friendsNews! Before putting the front letter in a triangle and sending it home, the soldier carefully thought through its contents. I did not want to grieve my relatives, but happy correspondence was not always. Many hoped that terrible public bills came by mistake. Wives, children and mothers so wanted to get a touching "triangle", informing them that their soldiers are alive and well ...
To date, almost every museumor archive researchers can find a soldier's letter-triangle. How to lay it down, everyone knew at that time. Genuine anxiety and love for loved ones are felt in each of them. Dreams of victory, a description of the front life, hope for a peaceful happy future - all this picks up to tears when viewing old triangular letters. The lines about comrades-in-arms who died in the war, the desire to avenge them, the thirst for life - that's what they were carrying messages to their relatives, incredibly touching and sad.
How best to fold a letter in a triangle toTo send the father to the front, even the kids knew. It did not get stuck. Before writing a letter, it was necessary to fold a triangle from a blank sheet. They met, even written on pieces of newspaper.
Initially, it was necessary to write down the address.The reverse side was indicated by a line or a dotted line along the edge. It remained clean so that postal workers could make their notes there. If the hero died, a corresponding entry was made here, and the letter was returned to the addressee. The address side in this case was crossed out.
Then the sheet unfurled. The letter itself was written. The text was placed in such a way as to fill all the empty spaces on the sheet, except the reverse and address surfaces.
If the soldier for some reason got intoanother part, to the infirmary or to the hospital, on the clean side of the triangle a new address was indicated. Some letters could "walk" for years and found a soldier only a few years after the end of the war.
Front "triangles" were written and onpages, torn from school notebooks. They were issued during the war on the account, the pages were numbered. Buy a notebook, of course, it was possible, but in the shops they were rare. Because they wrote the letters in fine neat handwriting, trying to save as much space as possible for the most important news.
The soldier's "triangle" is the so-called echowar. The surviving letters make us trembling to think about that terrible time, about the Soviet heroes, about the great importance of the support of relatives, expressed in warm words written on paper by our own hands.
