July 27, 1926

For Sergo.

In view of Kuibyshev's transfer to the VSNKh, on Thursday we are putting the question of your appointment as People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection [RKI] and Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars [Sovnarkom] under Rykov. The question of the new chairman of the Central Control Commission [CCC], for formal reasons, remains open until the Party congress, with Kuibyshev's release from the chairmanship at the next CCC Plenum. In communicating this, we ask you not to kick — nothing will come of it anyway.

Stalin.

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Source: Letters of J.V. Stalin to V.M. Molotov. 1925–1936. P. 86–87.

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