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The article presents, with the help of 25 postcards discovered at an antique shop in Bucharest, the history of a family from Chirnogeni, Constanţa County during the Second World War. Nicolae Carabulea, teacher, husband and father was enrolled in the Romanian Army at the beginning of the summer of 1940, when the Romanian state entered the war, and for two years he was stationed in the country, guarding the new border in Dobrogea. In September 1942 he left for the Eastern Front, where he fought in the battle of the Don bend. Nicolae Carabulea tells his wife, Georgeta, through military postcards, about life in the army, homesickness and the fear of the Soviet front. One impressive postcard is that in which he recounts how he met his brother somewhere in Russia, thousands of kilometers from home. The history of the Carabulea family is the history of thousands of families in Romania who were separated because of the Second World War. |
