VOPO guns
About the time we got involved in Korea, the Russians set up an army in the DDR. They called it a PEOPLES POLICE which is what Vo Po stands for. [Like us, they did not want to call it an Army!]
We know that they were reworking guns during the 1953 period as they dated many of the barrels they used for replacements.
Holsters were made up to accommodate the T-33-P38-P08 and all three were issued, I am told.
Like the American rework programs for the 1911.. these are legitimate guns. They will never, however, bring as much money as one that was not reworked.
Orv Reichert
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