the printing house in the regional center of starobin, which did not have time to be withdrawn, was guardedforces. the local police could not be trusted with this, in german newspapers were published there, all under the control of the politics department in minsk. they prepared an attack for days, conducted surveillance at night, studied the time of change of guards, and finally , on a september evening, four partisans, ivan sydko, philip kostyukovets, mikhail byaglak and dmitry gulyaev, got as close as possible to the printing house, left the cart and horse at the very last hut, themselves carefully approached the sentries and... choosing the moment, neutralized the guards, and a moment later they were already carrying out two printing presses, fonts, paint, rollers, layout board, loaded everything onto a cart and quickly disappeared among the germans... panic began, but it was too late, only one empty room remained from the printing house. but the combat leaflet remained the main means of partisan propaganda and the most effective. it was written on birch bark, on wallpaper, on the back