It has already been indicated how unsatisfactory the
draft is as a means of ensuring the complete military and
economic disarmament of Germany, and also that it com-
pletely disregards the problem of securing the democrati-
zation of the regime in Germany. To this it remains to be
added that Mr. Byrnes' draft totally ignores the necessity of
ensuring reparation deliveries, an omission to which the So-
viet Government is quite unable to agree.
It is< necessary to dwell upon the question of reparations
from Germany. It particularly affects the interests of those
countries which were invaded by German armies and ex-
perienced exceptionally great suffering as a result of Ger-
man occupation. Clearly, the Soviet Union cannot forget
about reparations, as has been clone in the submitted
draft.
With respect to the total amount of reparations from
Germany for the U.S.S.R., the Governments of the Soviet
Union and the United States already at the Crimea confer-
ence felt it possible to take the amount of 10,000 million dol-
lars as* a basis. At the Berlin conference the Soviet Gov-
ernment again insisted on fixing reparations from Ger-
many in favour of the Soviet Union in the amount of 10,000
million dollars. At that time it was decided, on the sugges-
tion of the United States, that the Soviet Union might
draw its reparations mainly from its occupation zone of
Germany and partly from the Western zones, and this was
written into the decisions of the Berlin conference,
Naturally, these reparations must include not only
equipment, but also commodities out of Germany's current •
production. But, as we know, the fulfilment of reparation de-
liveries is meeting ever new obstacles. Notwithstanding the
obligations assumed by the United States of America and
Great Britain, and subsequently undertaken also by
France, the Berlin decisions concerning reparation, deliveries