Telegram to L.M. Kaganovich, 2 August 1932

Source: Tom 17

I resolutely object to the point about importing raw materials for consumer goods. Regarding the 10 percent reduction in staff, I have already written to Molotov.

Stalin

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Source: Stalin and Kaganovich. Correspondence. 1931-1936, p. 255.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 78. L. 119, 119 verso.

NOTE: Reply to Kaganovich's cipher telegram of 1 August 1932, which proposed purchasing raw materials, semi-finished goods, and finished consumer goods abroad (approximately shoes, knitwear, textiles, metalware, Greek tobacco, cocoa beans for the confectionery industry, rubber, etc.) for up to twenty million rubles in hard currency, with payments no earlier than 1934, to sell these goods domestically at commercial prices for up to five hundred million rubles.