Warsaw.

Please accept my deep gratitude for your friendly congratulations on the occasion of the victory over the age-old enemy of the Slavic peoples — German imperialism.

On behalf of the Soviet people and personally on my own behalf, I greet the fraternal Polish people, who made their contribution to the winning of this great victory. I wish you and the entire Polish people success in the cause of the rebirth of a strong, independent, democratic Poland.

I. Stalin

Pravda. 1945. May 12.