Echos in the past

Does anyone remember the Spitak earthquake? This terrible earthquake in 1988 pretty much destroyed the Armenian town of Spitak and caused terrible damage in Leninakan/Gyumri and Kirovakan/Vanadzor. An international aid campaign came into being quickly, but the whole aftermath became entangled first in the Armenian independence movement, then in the break-up of the USSR and the Armenian-Azeri war. All we're left with is a memory of an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.

Sometimes you find out things by accident. Take a look at this card:

1929 stationery card from Tiflis to Sweden

I like the stationery cards of the Second Standard issue (a.k.a. the Big Heads), but they're hardly rare. Still, the Georgian cards are not that easy to find, and this one is nice and clean. But on the reverse...

Nice trilingual charity label! And read the message... An echo of 1988, 59 years in the past.