Old cemeteries continue to exist till people who come to see them are alive. When nobody else comes there, these cemeteries are ploughed up again and the ground is once again ready to become a new cemetery.
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Soviet boys and men who died at the end of WWII when liberating Eastern Europe from fascist troops were buried in the valleys of the Bug and Elbe rivers, in the fields across Vistula and Danube. Under the Soviet regime, pioneers of these East-European territories took care of cemeteries where Soviet soldiers were buried and placed flowers on their graves. Today, many of martial cemeteries in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechia are razed to the ground. Instead, more parks and residential areas appeared where cemeteries used to stand.
The settlement of Kistelek in Hungary has a cemetery that is over one hundred of years old. Hungarian Pap Pall, 76, the manager of the private churchyard, likes his job. It is said that cemeteries often look very much like people buried there. This quiet cemetery is situated in the outskirts of the settlement close to a Catholic church, deep in the gardens. Tablets on the graves tell that people buried there were born in the very beginning of the past century.
People of the settlement live a happy and long life. They have the opportunity to buy a personal cemetery lot even when they are alive. People just want to make sure that they will be properly buried and have a nice grave.
Right at the entry to the cemetery there is a grey square lot covered with wild grass where 200 unknown Soviet warriors were buried at the end of WWII. Once a year when lilac begins to blossom in May, one and the same old lady comes to the cemetery to see the abandoned grave. Cemetery manager Pap Pall has already got accustomed to these visits and looks forward to them every year. Honorary citizens of the settlement continuously besiege Pap Pall with requests to sell the privileged lot right at the cemetery entry at a good price. But the man would not agree to sell the lot where hundreds of Soviet soldiers are buried. He does it because of respect to the old lady who comes to see the grave every year.
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