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January 30, 1951	Ciphered Telegram from Filippov [Stalin] to Mao Zedong via Zakharov Passing on a copy of Stalin's telegram to Razuvaev from the same day concerning the organization and hierarchies of the Korean army.
November 28, 1950	Soviet Resolution on Sending Korean Students to Manchuria The Council of Ministers decided to direct Minister of War Vasilevsky to send 200 Korean students to Manchuria by 5 December 1950, to direct the Minister of State Security to issue those students exit visas using the most simplified procedure, and to direct the Minister of Foreign Trade to calculate the cost of sending the Korean students to Manchuria.
November 2, 1950	Ciphered Telegram from Shtykov to Fyn-Si [Stalin], Transmitting a Letter to Stalin from Kim Il Sung In agreement with the Chinese comrades, Korean reserves are to be withdrawn to Manchuria, including nine infantry divisions, and officers school, a tank regiment-in-training, and an air division with an aviation regiment-in-training. Six combat divisions will be preparing in Korea.
October 20, 1950	Telegram, from Golovko to Stalin Dispatches around 8:00 on October 20 reported that three Korean boats, a big hunter (trapper), a torpedo boat, and a patrol boat crossed the Soviet border with Korea and requested permission to take refuge in the bay.
October 13, 1950	Telegram, from Gromyko to Stalin Account of the reception of the Chinese Ambassador Peng Dehuai. He requested that all Korean undergrad and graduate students be admitted to the Soviet summer schools, as well as Korean specialists who receive production and technical training in industrial settings the USSR (a total of 738 people). Gromyko notes that there are differences between the requests of Dehuai and Kim Il Sung, and that Dehuai has been asked to speak to Kim Il Sung, and clear up the differences.
September 30, 1950	Cable No. 600308, Shtykov to Stalin, transmitting Letter from Kim Il Sung and Pak Heon-Yeong Telegram from Kim Il Sung and Pak Heon-yeong telling Stalin of the losses they have incurred following American air and ground attacks in South Korea and of their general lack of supplies and trained personnel.
September 28, 1950	Telegram, Gromyko to Cde. I.V. Stalin, Transmitting Letter from Kim Il Sung Kim Il Sung expresses his gratitude. In his telegram Gromyko informs Stalin of other letters from Kim Il Sung concerning the training of 120 Korean pilots in the Soviet Union, the supply of cars to the DPRK, the four advisors to North Korea's Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the wages of the air force cadets of the People's Army who are training in the Soviet Union.
April 5, 1952	Record of the Conversation of I.V. Stalin and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Stalin discuss India's internal politics and stance on foreign policy. Radhakrishnan tells Stalin of India's recent elections and emphasizes that India shares the Soviet Union's stance against capitalism. Radhakrishna also puts forth the question of peaceful co-existence between capitalist and communist spheres, and the possibility for a neutral commission to replace the Cominform and UN. Stalin expresses doubt.
March 31, 1953	Statement of Molotov, Minister of Foreign Affairs on the Korean Question Molotov's statement on the Korean Question.
July 21, 1951	Cable No. 4277, Filippov [Stalin] to Cde. Mao Zedong Stalin agrees with Mao on excluding the withdrawal of troops from the armistice negotiation agenda.