Source: Tom 17

We will have to sign the agreement with the Japanese.

Stalin

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Source: Stalin and Kaganovich. Correspondence. 1931-1936, p. 271. RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 78. L. 137.

NOTE: The matter concerns the fishing agreement with Japan. It was signed by Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs L.M. Karakhan and Japanese Ambassador to the USSR Hirota on 13 August 1932.