History 05/03/20 “Where grows the willow-herb, there a man died”: what are the signs, the search engines are looking for soldiers of the great Patriotic
the First groups of enthusiasts involved in the search and reburial of soldiers of the great Patriotic war appeared in the Soviet time. To date, there are no less than 42 thousand the official “red diggers”, for many of whom participation in search is the main business of life. Over decades of field work, the search engines have accumulated a lot of experience, but to find the remains of the fallen and sometimes it helps not a precise calculation, and signs.
looking for soldiers of the great Patriotic
the Search for dead soldiers, as a rule, starts in the archives. Search engines scrutinize military documents, to figure out in what specific areas was fighting. Particularly challenging is the search for buried remains (many search engines fundamentally sidestep sanitary burial and hospital during the war).
On arrival to the site, valuable information possible to obtain through communication with local residents. Many villagers, even children oblivia the surrounding forests, are very well aware of where to find something.
Space battles are determined by the preserved trenches and dugouts, barbed wire, boxes from under shells, soldiers ‘ mugs and pots, cartridges and other subjects. However, sometimes, it’s all gone underground – in this case digging the search engines have almost at random.
signs of the search engines
experienced diggers, by their own admission, developing a special flair, the ability to analyze the terrain, to notice suspicious bumps. In addition, search engines pay attention to the nature of the vegetation in a particular locality.
“we Have search engines, have the exact luck. Almost without fail: where is Ivan-Chay – a man died,” says the writer Sergei Perminov in the book “Monologues from the world”.
Ivan-tea, aka fireweed, actionrelatively sensitive to organic matter in the soil, for example, it grows on dried peat bogs. However, to consider it a reliable sign for all territories is impossible, as the plant is very widespread.
In the Northern regions of Russia, such as Karelia, where a few birches, search engines note that these trees often grow on the remains of the soldiers.
Hints from the world
For the so-called “kopeiskogo folklore” characteristic plots similar to ancient legends about treasures. Search engines often talk about inexplicable coincidences. Happened, for example, that to fallen soldiers brought them to the peasants, who in the same ground breaking technology.
When the proximity of the burial site from search engines can occur physiological responses: cold hands and feet, it makes my skin crawl.
a Special place in the folklore of the search engines is Ghost stories.
“it is believed that the diggers who came to hold (according to accepted tradition) in the last journey of the soldiers lucky. The souls of dead soldiers help: bring the lost, show the place where you want to go,” – said the candidate of philological Sciences Alexander Balashov.
Often the search engines will know where to dig, in a dream. Sometimes, however, they are faced with “tips” and reality. For example, oklikaya hear their voices, screams, sounds of battle, the moans, feel the prying eyes.
Sometimes the ghosts are the diggers, the species is known in folk traditions of “wandering lights”. But there are more clearly visible pictures of burning fires, or even figures of soldiers. Such images usually occur in the fog or in the twilight. It happens that the ghosts like to deliberately point out the place of his burial.
“with me Once the second head went my colleague. She went to camp and I saw you sitting under the birch soldier in the form of the time, and in a moment he disappeared, – has told in interview “to Komsomol truth” the commander of search group “Height” of the Altai territory Tatyana Nebylo. – Search engines believe in signs like that, they themselves confirmed. Perhaps this place were the remains, but to find that tree later and failed”.
All these phenomena can be attributed to sensitivity, sensory overload, and something called “search disease” (guilt, sadness, constant mental returning to archaeological sites). However, it should be noted that formed in the last decades of subculture search engines largely reproduces the attitude of “the world of the dead”, which are characteristic for post-industrial, but rather to a traditional society.
Timur Sagdiyev
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