Hello, Vyacheslav!

I received your letter.

You are right that in view of the new circumstances (the financial crisis in England, etc.) we will have to reduce our imports. I have no doubt that without cutting the import quotas approved at the beginning of the year, we cannot manage. At the beginning of the year, conditions were one thing; now they are different (they have worsened). This must be taken into account without fail.

As for the VSNKh department stores, you are of course right. Regards!

24/IX-31.

I. Stalin

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Source: Letters of I.V. Stalin to V.M. Molotov. 1925-1936, p. 238.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 1. D. 5388.