Letter to L.M. Kaganovich, V.M. Molotov, 24 July 1932

Source: Tom 17

To Kaganovich. Molotov.

First. If the Transcaucasians have already sent down their new plan, it is not worth rescinding their decision, since the political confusion that would arise in the districts after a reversal would be disadvantageous. If they have not yet managed to send it down, I fully support your decision. In any case, the CC decision must be reinforced by censuring the Transcaucasian organs for their completely inadmissible unilateral action.

Second. Our policy of unconditional fulfillment of the grain procurement plan for the USSR as a whole is entirely correct. But bear in mind that an exception will have to be made for particularly hard-hit areas of Ukraine. This is necessary not only from the standpoint of fairness, but also in view of Ukraine's special position, its shared border with Poland, etc. I think it would be possible to cut the plan for collective farms in the particularly hard-hit areas by half, and for individual peasants by a third. This will require thirty or forty million puds of grain. This should not be done now, but in the middle or at the end of August, so that the winter sowing can proceed more vigorously. It is possible that the same kind of exception will also be required for Transcaucasia, but in the amount of no more than one million puds.

Stalin

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Source: Stalin and Kaganovich. Correspondence. 1931-1936, pp. 241-242.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 78. L. 79-81.