For Kaganovich and Mikoyan.

I have read the draft on sugar beet. It is absolutely necessary to strike out point one on the reduction of grain deliveries and the third paragraph of point two on the premium. The rest is acceptable. The draft lacks a provision on the transport of beet to railway stations. This is a shortcoming of the draft.

Stalin.

Source: Stalin i Kaganovich. Perepiska. 1931-1936 gg. [Stalin and Kaganovich. Correspondence. 1931-1936], p. 185.

RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 77, l. 79.

NOTE

The reply was written on the draft resolution of the USSR Council of People's Commissars and the CC VKP(b), "On Beet." The first point, which Stalin proposed to remove, was the following: "1) For collective farms and individual farms in which sugar beet occupies no less than 15% of the sown area, reduce the delivery of grain to 1-1 1/2 centners per ha, and for farms where sugar beet occupies from 5 to 15% of the entire sown area, reduce the delivery of grain to 1 1/2-2 centners per ha depending on the harvest."

The third paragraph of the second point was the following: "For collective farms and individual farmers who have overfulfilled the beet delivery plan, establish as a bonus an additional issue at the state price of 3 kilograms of sugar for each centner of beet delivered above the plan." On June 23, the Politburo approved this draft.