Telegram to V.M. Molotov, L.M. Kaganovich, June 17, 1932

Source: Tom 17

Molotov, Kaganovich.

The issue is not the total volume of cotton fabric production in the third quarter but the distribution of finished goods in favor of the market and at the expense of non-market consumers. Try to distribute fabrics in the third quarter so that the market receives no less than in the second quarter, and the task will be accomplished without importing cotton. I repeat: the issue is not the size of production but distribution. Whoever is afraid of offending non-market consumers will never resolve the problems of consumer goods. I am categorically against importing cotton. I consider the policy of importing cotton under the present currency conditions to be adventurism.

Stalin.

Source: Stalin i Kaganovich. Perepiska. 1931-1936 gg. [Stalin and Kaganovich. Correspondence. 1931-1936], p. 176.

RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 77, ll. 65, 63 ob.