Sarco Imports - Any Prior Discussion?

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Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

Well, actually those are two different shipments.

VOPO is post war, so it is unlikely the Russians captured them during WW2 - does not mean they did not help the East Germans sell them later.

Ed, the Country of East German was formed out of the areas of the former Nazi Germany that were captured and under Soviet control. ALL ordnance within this area would have had to have initially been under Soviet control, by definition. I think it is fair to say that the East German police was supplied out of captured Russian stocks, otherwise, where would these pistols have come from?
I doubt the Russians would have allowed any stray ordnance to sit around in areas they controlled.