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+----- Thread: SMERSH Identifications. (/Thread-SMERSH-Identifications)
SMERSH Identifications. - Blokhin V.M. - 05-29-2012
Hello
Here is an absolutely real one. I bought it in 1994 in Zhitomir from a nice little old lady who also had a photo album of her smersh hubby (now deceased) "at work." She also had his obit. which mentioned his being in smersh. Could not get a copy as I think at that time there were probably only 3 copy machines in all of the Ukraine. She would not part with the album either....but I got the best item.
sorry forgot the most important part....the cover. This is what the fakers ALWAYS get wrong. I've seen some scary good interiors, but the cover always gives it away. It is hard to describe what the material used on the real one is, but it is rigid and hard and not fuzzy or cardboardy..
SMERSH Identifications. - EricFG - 05-29-2012
Congrats on a nice ID! And also welcome to the forum; it's great to get new blood.
SMERSH Identifications. - slava1stclass - 02-12-2014
Gents,
A nice I.D. to a Guards Lt Col who commanded a corps-level SMERSH detachment.
Regards,
slava1stclass