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Never mind the stamps: moonshine, colognes, technical alcohol, glue and laquer with the rest of it will surely tide them over. In the 70s I personally taught a bunch of Muscovites how to distill the alcohol-based wood paint ["morilka", sinister-looking brown-black liquid] to a water-clear, barely drinkable condition - and within 2 months that particular brand of wood paint disappeared from all hardware stores in Moscow. I still remember seeing people carrying large sacks of those bottles - they had pretty characteristic large blue labels, so one couldn't mistake them for anything else.