Source: Tom 17

I have no right, and I advise no one, to grant permission for flights. I most humbly request that you come by railway.

Stalin

11. IX.31.20.

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Source: Iosif Stalin in the Embrace of the Family. From the Personal Archive, p. 42. AP RF F. 45. Op. 1. D. 76. L. 59.

NOTE: In a coded telegram from Moscow on September 11, 1931, S.M. Kirov asked permission to fly to Sochi by airplane. The inscription was made by Stalin in his own hand on the text of the decoded message. See also: Telegram to K.E. Voroshilov and Letter to L.M. Kaganovich of June 29, 1932.