[Cz-L] Kipetok

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Kipetok and Komandirovka.



 Czernowitz 1944 – 45 . The war was still going on.

  If you wanted to travel from Czernowitz to visit

  family in neighboring towns you needed

  a travel permit – a komandirovka.

   These were issued by the military only after checking

  that you were not a draft dodger and could provide a

  good reason for travelling ,where you would stay,

  for how long and more…

    Train trafic in those times was irregular.

   You went down to the station and waited for a connection.

    It could take days . The station was run by the military and

   crowded with refugees returning from Russia.

  Illegal travellers were held up and sifted for army dodgers.

   Food was a problem but nobody was going hungry.

   All experienced travellers had small kettles attached to their

    belts. The steam engines provided boiling water .

    If you had tea , you made some. If you had milk you made "okrip".

     As a train arrived a line formed near the engine with people

     holding the kettles or jars for hot steaming water from

      the engine: Kipetok.

      And Komandirovka.


Hardy
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