It's a Czechoslovakian stamp, but you can bet that's a kindly Russian officer (brave, too, by the look of his medals) assisting a victim of the Holocaust, perhaps at Theresienstadt in May 1945 (the stamp is a 15th anniversary of Czech liberation issue).
The point, really, is in the inscription: osvobozeni politickych veznu - or 'freeing political prisoners'.
Of course political prisoners did perish at Theresienstadt and many other camps, but, to put it delicately, they weren't the largest cohort of Holocaust victims.
The Soviet Union persistently glossed over the Jewish victims of the Holocaust: Stalin himself began a sort of Jewish purge in the years after the war, which was halted only by his death. This stamp is a graphic reminder, even in a satellite of post-Stalinist Russia, of that perverse line of thinking.
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re: Victims of the Holocaust
Indeed you are correct. Let us not forget that among the Russia POWs who were liberated and returned to the USSR, a large percentage (of course we'll probably never know the numbers) were then interned in gulags, being considered as spies during WWII. There really was a warped sense of perspective by Stalin and his cohorts.
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