Telegram to L.M. Kaganovich, August 14, 1931

Source: Tom 17

Moscow. CC VKP(b).

Poskrebyshev, for Mikoyan.

Copy: Politburo, Kaganovich.

Reports from Abkhazia and Mingrelia indicate that there are no grain warehouses there for supplying tobacco growers and tea producers, nor are any being built. Mikoyan reported to the Politburo that a whole series of grain warehouses had supposedly already been built. Who is right, and who is misleading the CC? Is it not possible to ascertain how many warehouses have already been built, where exactly they have been built, how many are under construction and when they will be completed, how many poods of grain have already been concentrated in the warehouses and how many will be concentrated by the end of September? It is no longer possible to tolerate this deception. Is it not possible to receive an honest and straightforward answer?

Stalin

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Source: Stalin and Kaganovich: Correspondence, 1931-1936, p. 44.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 76. L. 8, 8 rev.

Note: In a reply telegram of August 18, 1931, addressed to Stalin and Kaganovich, Mikoyan rejected the accusations.

See: Telegram to L.M. Kaganovich, August 19, 1931.