the Great Patriotic War has long remained in history.Fewer and fewer people today who remember those terrible years.But the echo of the war does not cease.On the battlefields still found unexploded ordnance, and military family archives stored letters and postcards triangles, as the memory of the heroism of our fathers and grandfathers.
Frontline mail
At the beginning of the war the Soviet government pays special attention to communication of soldiers to their loved ones.But the only way to pull it off in the early 40s was a post office.It was believed that a letter from home at times increases the combat force of soldiers.Therefore, it was organized by an email message.Machines for the transport of correspondence prohibited to use for other purposes.Mail vans have the same priority as the wagons of ammunition.Therefore, they were allowed to cling to any compositions that military letters triangles from the front fell to the recipients.
All correspondence to the front and the rear was free.The only exception was sending.But not always the letter came in time.There were cases that the triangles come in ten and twenty years after the end of the war.
Variety correspondence
Due to high demand in the letters, the economy beginning to produce widely envelopes, cards and blanks for the letters.They have a colorful decoration of patriotic character.On postcards, for example, printed cartoons of the Germans, and they were signed by beautiful slogans "Shoot so that no bullet - in German", "Death to the German invaders."
but up front they did not reach virtually blank.Yes, and plain paper in the letter is not always enough.So widespread military letters triangles.How to fold even know their child as envelopes then almost was not.
gets to the newspapers and leaflets to soldiers who raised the morale and narrated the news that occurred in the rear and on other fronts.But this information has always been scarce and no regularly as wartime demanded caution.Yes, and the message is not always everything was fine as postage machine frequently ambushed and there have been looted.
Letters triangular shape
today can not understand why the military sent a letter of triangles.This form seems to be meaningless and not practical.As practice of the war years, it is absolutely not true.Uncomplicated form without abandon envelopes and send emails free of charge to any city of the motherland.
Each soldier had sent a letter home to military triangle.How to fold knew him even a novice in the military.For this purpose a rectangular sheet of paper formed diagonally from right to left, and then in half - from left to right.Since the sheets were rectangular, it has always remained at the bottom of a narrow strip.She served as a kind of valve that refueled inside the triangle with pre-curved corners.
letters or tape and did not require stamps.On the front side of the write address and the back left blank.All the rest of the space leaves use up small handwriting to as much information about yourself to tell someone, because the letter went infrequently.
«Verified censorship»
Because it was wartime, the letter might fall into the hands of the enemy.Together with them not to reveal secrets, military censorship checked the letter-triangles.Just then it becomes clear why they are not glued, just wrapped in a special way.Since censorship was easier to read them, so as not to damage the paper, and with it the valuable information for relatives.
There were times when soldiers accidentally could describe the place of his position, the number of troops or the plans for further maneuvers.This information is carefully sketched with black paint so that no one could read it.
To circumvent censorship and hint know about its status or place of residence, the soldiers put in small letters hint.There are cases when the mother came with sprigs of tarragon triangles, which hinted at the bitter life in the field.As well as hints and used newspaper clippings, flyers.
On approved to send a letter stamped "Checked censorship", which allowed further sending it to the addressee.
special meaning letters triangle
During the war with the address of delivery is almost always had problems.First, people in the rear are often moved to escape the fighting.Second, military units are not standing still.Thirdly, recipients often died or disappeared without a trace.In such cases, a kind of signal joyful or sad news became military letters triangles.History knows many cases when they came much later delayed the official 'funerals. "It gave hope to the families that the soldiers alive and well and will soon return home.
In the case where the recipient died during the war, shipping address and undermined, and the letter was returned back.This equated to a death notice, which would never come.For this reason, I never returned the letter, which the recipient moved to an unknown address or stints and hospital, and in which one hardly knew.
Today museums are stored various military uncollected letters triangles.Photo of a source of studying the history of the Great Patriotic War, as do sheets have decayed and can be destroyed by frequent touch.
Subjects letters
As the front was strict censorship, military letters triangles have a special style.Soldiers rarely talked about himself the sad details.They are brave and expressed great optimism about the imminent end of the war.
In response, they asked about relatives, the news that happened at home.Most soldiers have expressed concern about the health of family members.The tone of the letters virtually all solemn.And the messages themselves are filled with sincerity, which is read in every word.
Today we know if the men did not know how to make the military a letter delta, we would not know what was in fact a war.After all, it is no secret that the official data do not always coincide with real events.
