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Published: 2015-10-07 15:45:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 486; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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I saw these letters for sale at a Antique show. I found that sad and depressing. How personal to write on paper with a pen, and then mail it off and have to wait for days, weeks even months for a response. Now those private thoughts, dreams and questions are for sale.Related content
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how depressing.. feelings and heartaches all tied down
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Beautifully put and so right!
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I feel, we have lost something. In the future, such things will not exist, for all their technology, the touch of life, the moments recorded, are no longer something you can touch with your hands, feel with your heart. They have become fleeting pixels on a screen, vanishing in the digital black hole that is today.
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Well said, and I completely agree with you. The creation of memories like these are a thing of the past. Our children/grandchildren will never experience the anxiousness of waiting for a letter from a loved one far away, or the joy that comes when the letter arrives!
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I agree. To get a card even in the mail is rare. I always try to send thank you cards and little notes to people. Getting something in the mail is so fun!
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Poignant but I have to wonder how they ended up for sale instead of the dead letter office. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall lots of Soviet stuff has come onto the market including Party Member books - these things belonged to members of the Red Army and were meant to be confidential since they held everything - what jobs you held, what schools you went to with commentary notes
from your teacher, your boss, your local Party Secretary/chairman etc.
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Wow those books sound amazing! You would think a museum would want them.
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I've seen one or two at antique fairs here in Ireland and was told they were got in Ukraine & Belarus I suppose that when the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was declared illegal alot of stuff just disappeared as the apparachiks looted everything.
You can sometimes come across German soldier passbooks (showing i.d. rank, pay-rate, home town and place of recruitment) apparently one copy was carried by the soldier and another kept in an office in his home town in case he got killed, once again with the chaos after WW2 alot of stuff went "missing".
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I also found tons of old photos and wanted to buy them because I felt like maybe someone in it could be found. But the dealers wanted 45 dollars for them.
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Actually there's a fair bit available to the public for free these days, If you're interested in Irish history etc. the archives of the old Pathe Newsreels company have been bought out and are now available on Youtube. Pathe had reporters on the scene days after the Easter 1916 Rebellion took place in Dublin so you can see what the city looked like after the first shots of the Irish revolution. If you ever go on tour in Dublin you can still see bullet holes in the walls and pillars of the GPO which was the rebel headquarters.
There's also an organisation called Irish Volunteers who make available records and photo's from various public collections irishvolunteers.org/ . they've been encouraging members of the Irish public to put any old family photo's from the revolutionary period into the public domain.
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Thanks! I a past history major from university so I love learning still!!
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