Source: Tom 17

To Kaganovich. To Molotov. To Voroshilov.

The hullabaloo and fanfare in our press about the maneuvers of our troops are doing us harm. Cannot they be stopped immediately? It is incomprehensible where Bolsheviks get this petty-bourgeois craving for hullabaloo and ostentatious display.

Stalin

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Source: Stalin and Kaganovich. Correspondence. 1931-1936, pp. 121-122. RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 76. L. 81.