Source: Tom 17

To Kaganovich.

Give Pravda a directive to harshly criticize the North Caucasus leadership for poor fulfillment of the grain procurement plan. The North Caucasus is fulfilling the plan worse than the most backward oblasts, when by all measures it should be in first place. This is inadmissible.

Stalin

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Source: Stalin and Kaganovich. Correspondence. 1931-1936, p. 288. RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 79. L. 43.