Telegram to L.M. Kaganovich, August 15, 1931

Source: Tom 17

Moscow. CC VKP(b).

Poskrebyshev, for Kaganovich.

An error made by a copyist has crept into the CC letter to the regional and territorial committees regarding the reasons for changes in the leadership of the OGPU. Point 4 of the letter reads: "The OGPU is and remains the unsheathed sword of the working class, which has accurately and skillfully defeated the enemy." Instead, it should read: "The OGPU is and remains the unsheathed sword of the working class, which accurately and skillfully strikes the enemy." Please correct the error and communicate the correction to the secretaries of the regional committees.

Stalin

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Source: Stalin and Kaganovich: Correspondence, 1931-1936, p. 48.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 76. L. 9, 9 rev.