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.