Telegram from Kim Il Sung to Stalin confirming that he would accept Stalin's offer to send 50,000 tons of bread.
April 14, 1952
VKP(b) CC Politburo decision with approved message from Stalin to Kim Il Sung
ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY (bolsheviks), CENTRAL COMMITTEE No. P87/104
Copies: Malenkov, Mikoyan, Vyshinsky, Shtemenko
14 April 1952
Excerpt from protocol No. 87 of the meeting of the Politburo CC VKP(b) [Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (bol'shevik)]
Decision of 14 April 1952
104. Question of Korea.
To confirm the attached text of a telegram.
SECRETARY CC
To p.104(op) pr.PB No. 87
BY CIPHER
PYONGYANG
To Soviet Ambassador RAZUVAEV
Hand Over Immediately
For Comrade KIM IL SUNG
It has become known to me that the Korean people are in need of bread. We have in Siberia 50,000 tons of prepared wheat flour. We can send this flour as a gift to the Korean people. Telegraph your agreement. We can send the flour immediately according to your instruction.
With greetings. I. STALIN
14 April 1952
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Telegram from Stalin to Kim Il Sung asking whether the latter wants wheat flour in response to a shortage of bread in North Korea.
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APRF, Fond 3, Opis 65, Delo 778, Listy 22-23. See also RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 348, ll. 0058.
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