Letter to L.M. Kaganovich, June 29, 1932

Source: Tom 17

Greetings, Comrade Kaganovich!

1) Since the decision on the third-quarter plan for the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry has already been adopted, it is not worth changing it now, so as not to create confusion among economic managers and not to give them grounds for supposing a policy of curtailing construction.

2) Regarding Voroshilov's draft on aviation, I have already sent you a coded message. In my opinion, for the time being one can confine oneself to Voroshilov's draft with the corrections set out in my coded message.

3) I have read the materials on the negotiations with the Anglo-American oilmen. Veitser's and Ozersky's considerations are correct. In the event of a resumption of negotiations, it would be good to limit the duration of the contract to five or six years.

Greetings!

I. Stalin.

June 29, 1932

Source: Stalin i Kaganovich. Perepiska. 1931-1936 gg. [Stalin and Kaganovich. Correspondence. 1931-1936], pp. 204-205.

RGASPI, f. 81, op. 3, d. 99, ll. 78-79.