Gone is the wartime when the ability to fold letters in a soldier's triangle was relevant. Even preschool children, playing “commissars and fascists,” folded sheets of newsprint like such a letter and “sent” it to the front to their fathers. During the years of the Chechen wars, our soldiers sometimes had to resort to the same method of folding letters in a soldier's triangle.
It is necessary
Rectangular sheet of paper from a regular school notebook or A4 sheet
Instructions
Step 1
Take a piece of paper on which you are going to write a letter. In this case, the sheet should be rectangular, and not square, since the square cannot be folded into a soldier's triangle and correctly fastened so that the letter does not fall apart.
Step 2
Write the letter on only one side of a piece of paper so that there is room for further writing of addresses. Or fold the sheet in advance and mark those parts of its surface that can be covered with text.
Step 3
Fold the rectangle of the letter by pulling down and to the left first the upper right corner so that the upper horizontal edge of the paper lies flat on the left vertical edge of the sheet. You should get a rectangle with an acute angle on top.
Step 4
Pull the top sharp corner of the resulting paper shape to the right and down. The result will be something that resembles a children's house with its contours with a huge roof and a tiny residential part. If you see something like this in the resulting pentagon, then you did everything right and you only need to perform one last action to fold the letter.
Step 5
Fill that part of the folded sheet that resembles the "residential part" of the "house" in the space between the folds of the letter on top so that you get a triangle. In order for the end of the sheet to easily be tucked into the triangle, bend the corners of the folded part. A correctly folded soldier's envelope does not fall apart when turned over, especially during its further transportation.
Step 6
Write the recipient and sender addresses on one (front) side of the soldier's triangle. Traditionally, leave the other side clean: during the Great Patriotic War, additional addresses were written on the blank, blank side of the letter in case the recipient left (to another part, hospital, etc.). The stamp was also not attached to such envelopes.
