"To Comrade Kaganovich and the Other Members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Ukraine C.P.(B.)"
- by J.V. STALIN (Apr. 1926)

Source: Works, Vol. 8, January-November, 1926, pp. 157-163
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954

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Stalin discusses the problems in "Ukrainisation". This means promoting the national culture of Ukraine in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and drawing leading Communist cadres and officials from the population of Ukraine.

Problems were the attitudes of some Ukrainian officials, sentiments of Russian workers in Ukraine, lack of high quality Ukrainian cadres etc.


" It is true that a broad movement in favour of Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian public life has begun and is spreading in the Ukraine. It is true that we must under no circumstances allow that movement to fall into the hands of elements hostile to us. It is true that a number of Communists in the Ukraine do not realise the meaning and importance of that movement and are therefore taking no steps to gain control of it. It is true that a change of sentiment must be brought about among our Party and Soviet cadres, who are still imbued with an ironical and sceptical attitude towards Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian public life."
~J.V. STALIN

"While quite rightly stressing the positive character of the new movement in the Ukraine in favour of Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian public life, Shumsky fails to see its seamy side. Shumsky fails to see that, in view of the weakness of the indigenous communist cadres in the Ukraine, this movement, which is very frequently led by non-communist intellectuals, may here and there assume the character of a struggle to alienate Ukrainian culture and public life from general Soviet culture and public life, the character of a struggle against “Moscow” in general..."
~J.V. STALIN

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