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June 9, 1940

Concerning Funding for the Red Army

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[handwritten: from Minutes Nº 17

Politburo decisions between 29 May and 23 July 1940

 

point 131 is in classified storage]

 

from 9 June 1940

 

[…]

 

131. An NKO issue.

 

Approve the total amount of hard currency expenses for the 5th Directorate of the Red Army for 1940 in the amount of 9,174,058 rubles.

 

Excerpts have been sent:

 

to Cdes. Timoshenko, Zverev, and Khlomov.

 

 

The Soviet Politburo directs the NKO to approve over 9 million rubles in hard currency expenses for the 5th Directorate of the Red Army for 1940.


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Source

RGASPI f.17 op.162 d.23, l. 152. Translated by Gary Goldberg.

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2015-04-02

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