GPS June 2020
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Image 18. Lieutenant Colonel Boris Alexeyevich Smyslovsky provided the
only oral report of the stamp distribution at Sloboda.
Kesselstatt/Heide commented Smyslovsky’s statements “which he
made in conversation in Liechtenstein after the war” and wrote: “In
September 1943, Holmston-Smyslowskij was in Sloboda, presumably
as a lecturer and witnessed at first hand what happened… The stamps
were distributed to German military personnel and advisors but above all
to the Russian students in the Education Centre. It is not known if the
farmers in Sloboda and Skrelewschtschina received any. The stamps were
available mint and used but it is mainly the used ones that were sought
after.”
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German Postal Specialist