Nearly 80 years later, they received letters from family members who fought during the Second World War – 04/29/2019

A set of 75 letters of Soviet soldiers who fought during the Second World War began to reach their parents almost 80 years after being sentThe authorities of the Veterans Council of Chebarkul, a city in southern Russia, said.

According to Svetlana Kolodikina, vice-president of this organization, the letters had been left lost in a post office that was going to be closed.

"They found the letters in the basement, just when they started to build a shop in this old post office," Kolodkina explained, adding that there was a 75 letters that should have been sent in 1943.

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According to the activist, it took a week to clean with brushes each of the envelopes and leaves, dirt and dust accumulated for nearly 80 years. Once this step is over, they could reset recipient's addresses and data.

Thus, explained Kolodkina, they decided to find the relatives of the soldiers: "We have created a group calledLetter of 43& # 39; in (the Russian social network) Odnoklásniki, which mainly involve older users, and we publish the list of addresses. & # 39; The list has also been published in the local newspaper.

The first response came from the village of Bishkil, punctually, a letter from the great-granddaughter of one of the shippers.

And since the beginning of the research, they have already found ten families who recognized their loved ones in the list.

"Today, in the morning, they called two people and told them that it was his great-grandparents.They want to pick up the letters," said Kolodkina.

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On the other hand, they expressed their surprise at the discovery from the press area of ​​the Russian regional post office. Svetlana Zamiátina, spokesperson for this entity, said that "for the moment, it is impossible to determine how these letters reached the place where they were found and why they were not sent to their respective destinations. It is clear that in times of war this must have considerable weight. Maybe something happened to the factor ",

Kolodikina said that the Veterans Council will continue its investigations until June 22. Then, all letters whose recipients are not found will be given to the Regional Museum of Mail History.

Source: EFE