J. V. Stalin


Telegram to the Minister President
of the German Democratc Republic
Otto Grotewohl

On the occasion of the second anniversary of the foundation of the German Democratic Republic

7 October, 1951

Source : Works, Vol. 16
Publisher : Red Star Press Ltd., London, 1986
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To the Minister President of the German Democratic Republic, Comrade Otto Grotewohl.

On the national day of celebration - the second anniversary of the foundation of the German Democratic Republic - please accept, Comrade Minister President, my congratulations. 1 wish the German people, the government and you personally, further success in the building of an united, independent, democratic, peace-loving German state.

J. STALIN

("Daily Review," Vol. 2, No. 234, 7 October, 1951)