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Stanitsa Veshenskaya, Veshenskiy District

North Caucasus Territory, to Mikhail Sholokhov

Your second letter just received. In addition to the forty thousand puds of rye recently allocated, we are allocating an additional eighty thousand puds for the Veshenskiy people. A total of one hundred twenty thousand puds. For the Verkhne-Donskoy District, we are allocating forty thousand puds. You should have sent your reply not by letter but by telegram. A loss of time has resulted.

Stalin.

April 22, 1933.

Pisatel i vozhd. P. 67.

AP RF. F. 45. Op. 1. D. 827. L. 30.

Note: Reply to Sholokhov's letter of April 16, 1933.