Telegram to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Bulgaria – Vassil Kolaroff

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria

September, 1949

I greet the government of the Bulgarian People's Republic, and you personally, on the national holiday celebrating the fifth anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria. I send best wishes to the fraternal

Bulgarian people.

J. Stalin

("Daily Review," Vol. 2, No. 213, 10 September, 1949)