BREZHNEV LEONID: (1906-1982) General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1964-82. T.L.S., `L Brezhnev´, in purple ink, Cyrillic, two pages, folio, 15th May 1947, to tovarish Kaganovitch, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine , in Cyrillic. Stating to the heading “ Proletarians of all countries, unite! Communist Party of (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine , Zaporizhzhia Regional Committee ”. Also annotated in pencil in another hand and to the heading ` To tovarisch Varshavsky , I request to give your suggestions. L.K.´ Brezhnev, in his capacity as Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine , states in part ` Due to unfavourable weather conditions during the autumn-winter period of 1946-1947 (strong snowstorms in December and February, sharp temperature fluctuations in early spring, and a cold snap in the middle of March -temperature drop to -14º -17ºC), in the Kuibyshev district, 19,086 hectares of winter crops out of a total area of 22,055 hectares were completely destroyed. The collective farms of the district, which had no seeds for replanting, and not knowing that they will be given seed loan for replanting, as well as in order to use fallow lands for spring grain crops and in order to preserve crop rotations that are being mastered, destroyed winter crops and found it suitable to cultivate spring grain crops in winter grain crops area, because of the crop failure <https://www.multitran.com/m.exe?s=crop+failure&l1=1&l2=2>. That is why the collective farms in the Kuibyshev district, which had lost all of their winter crops, replant them with spring grain crops in the first place´ Further giving detailed examples . Bearing several official ink stamps at the base of the front page. Few pinholes and small tears to the left and bottom border, not affecting the text or signatures. Small repair to the verso. Overall small creasing. VG