Why were civilians forbidden to use war materiel?

Опубликовано: 01 Январь 1970
на канале: Поле брани

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Why were civilians forbidden to use war materiel?
During the war, civilians experienced much greater hardship than Red Army soldiers. Destroyed houses, occupation, hunger, death of relatives and friends at the front. And if we add to this the wartime laws, before which all were equal, the picture was not pretty at all. This is what World War II veteran Alexander Gordeev recalls about it. “All sorts of things floated down the Volga, including Red Army wrappers. Light green, made of good, it seems English, cloth. Local women on the shore were saying that two windings could be used to make a skirt. But no one was in a hurry to get them, even when they swam very close by. They were afraid. Windings were considered military property. If you picked them up and appropriated them, you could go to court for theft (or looting). They didn't joke in those years; it was very easy to earn five or ten years in a camp.
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