J. V. Stalin
Source : Works, Vol. 16
Publisher : Red Star Press Ltd., London, 1986
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All of the undersigned have received telegrams from different works, kolkhozes and election councils of electors of the different areas and districts, about our nominations as deputy candidates to the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. in a whole series of election districts.
We thank all the electors that nominated us as candidates for giving us their trust.
We hold it necessary, however, to declare that, by law, each of us may stand for election in only one election district; we, as Communists and members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of ttje Soviet Union (Bolshevik), have got to follow the directives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik). The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik) has instructed us to withdraw our candidature in other districts and to stand for election in the following election districts:
Andreyev, A.A. - for the Union Soviet in the election district of Aschchabad, Turkmenian S.S.R.
Beria, L.P. - for the Union Soviet in the Stalin electoral district of the city of Tsibilisk, Georgian S.S.R.
Budyonny, S.M. - for the Union Soviet in the electoral district of Shepetovka, Ukrainian S.S.R.
Bulganin, N.A. - for the National Soviet in the Moscow city electoral district.
Voroshilov, K.E. - for the Union Soviet in the Minsk city electoral district, Byelorussian S.S.R.
Kaganovitch, L.M. -? for the Union Soviet in the Lenin electoral district of the city of Tashkent, Usbek S.S.R.
Kosygin, A.N. - for the National Soviet in the Invanovo election district.
Malenkov, G.M. - for the Union Soviet in the Leningrad election district of the city of Moscow.
Mikoyan, A.J. - for the National Soviet in the Stalin electoral district of Yerevan, Armenian S.S.R.
Mikhailov, N.A. - for the National Soviet in the Stavropoli electoral district.
Molotov, W.M. - for the Union Soviet in the Molotov electoral district in the city of Moscow.
Ponomarenko, P.K. - for the Union Soviet in the Minsk-Land electoral district, Byelorussian S.S.R.
Stalin, J.V. - for the Union Soviet in the Stalin electoral district in the city of Moscow,
Suslov, M.A. - for the Union Soviet in the Lenin electoral district in the city of Saratov.
Krushchev, N.S. - for the Union Soviet in the Kalinin electoral district of the city of Moscow.
Shvernik, N.M. - for the National Soviet in the Sverdlovsk electoral district.
Shkiryatov, M.F. - for the National Soviet in the Tula-Ryasan electoral district.
We follow these directives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik).
We ask the appropriate electoral districts to take notice of this declaration and to take it into consideration in their documents of registration of deputy candidates. Andreyev, A.A., Beria, L.P., Budyonny, S.M., Bul-ganin, N.A., Voroshilov, K.E., Kaganovitch, L.M., Kosygin, A.N., Malenkov, G.M., Mikoyan, A.J., Mikhailov, N.A., Molotov, W.M., Ponomarenko, P.K., Stalin, J.V., Suslov, M.A., Krushchev, N.S., Shvernik, N.M., Shkiryatov, M.F.
("New Germany," Berlin Ed., No. 43, 19 February 1950)