In the noise, danger, and uncertainty of the war, letters sent  by wives, mothers, daughters, and sweethearts were very much appreciated by the often lonely and despondent men at the front. As in the case of these Honveds resting behind the front lines, both reading and writing personal letters was was an important aspect of maintaining their emotional balance.

Letters from Hungary, Don Army, 1942

Honved cooks did their best to feed the 200,000 souls of the Second Army, with at least one warm meal a day. Food supplies transported over long distance from home were augmented by locally "obtained" additions, as the chicken legs in the pot show. Otherwise, canned and dried foods had to make do.  But hunger was endless in the trenches.

 Field Kitchen, Don Army of Hungary, 1942

Postes had been widely used in most of Europe from the late 1800's, and the advancing Magyar soldiers of the Second Army had been well introduced to it back in Hungary by the Horthy regime.  But the profuseness of Soviet propaganda and the high quality of it must have been a novelty -- besides the Cyrillic alphabet.