A Letter From That World
Agrafena, a 90-year-old grandmother who has lived in a quiet Ural village, recently received a letter from her late husband. Seventy years later, he went to the front and died. He was declared missing. All these 70 years Agrafena waited and hoped, the second time she never got married - and here is the letter. It was dated July 41, and there is nothing so special about it. Peter wrote that the Germans would soon be destroyed, worried whether there was bread in the family and sent 30 rubles. He took them with him "to the war", but now decided that he didn't need money here.
The letter was interested in the organization involved in the search for the missing frontmen. She was unable to establish the fate of Peter, but her staff followed the path of the letter.
The train to which a postal wagon was attached was bombed by German aircraft. Subsequently, the pedant German collected all the documents found in the train and sent them to their archives. Then the Allied aviation bombed this archive, and it was dismantled by anyone.
Almost all of the papers were sold through auctions to private collections. This letter, judging by inventory marks, passed through a dozen such collections in different countries, until it fell into the hands of one Austrian collector. He had it for 20 years, and before his death he suddenly decided to send it to the address indicated on it.
Per it is worth repeating: there was a letter both from the Germans, and from the hijackers of the German archives, and from collectors from a dozen different countries, and for many years it was in the family of an Austrian, but those 30 rubles, which were in the letter, only when it already came to our mail...