To Sverdlovsk, Uralmash. Director Muzrukov, Chief Engineer Ryzhkov

Source: Tom 18

Source: marxists.org, Volume 15

I ask you to honestly and on time fulfill the orders for the supply of hulls for the KV tank to the Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory. For now I am asking, and I hope that you will fulfill your duty to the Motherland. In a few days, if you prove to be violators of your duty to the Motherland, I shall begin to crush you as criminals who are neglecting the honor and interests of their Motherland. It is intolerable that our troops should suffer at the front from a shortage of tanks while you in the distant rear take it easy and idle about.

I. STALIN

17 September 1941

Izvestiya TsK KPSS. 1990. No. 11.