75 letters of the Second World War appeared

Russia A series of 75 letters of Soviet soldiers who fought during the Second World War began reaching their loved ones almost 80 years after their dispatch.

As Svetlana Kolodikina, vice president of the Veterans Council of Chebarkul, a town in southern Russia, explained, the mail had been lost at a post office that was to be closed. "They found the letters in the basement just as they started to build a shop inside this former post office," said Kolodkina, who said that the shipment 75 letters should have been sent in 1943.

The activist said it had taken a week to clean each of the envelopes and leaves with brushes because of the dirt and dust accumulated for nearly 80 years. Once this step was completed, they were able to reset the addresses and data of the recipients. They managed to follow the relatives of the soldiers. "We have created a group called" Letter 43 "in Odnoklásniki (the Russian social network), which mainly involves elderly users, and we publish the list of addresses," he said. This list has also been published in the local newspaper. Since the beginning of the search, ten families have already been found, mostly great-grandchildren of the army, who have recognized their relatives in the report.

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