Greetings Telegram from Stalin and Molotov to the President of the Czechoslovakian Republic Klement Gottwald

On the occasion of the election of Klement Gottwald as President of the Czechoslovakion Republic

June 17, 1948

Accept our sincere good wishes on the victory of people's democracy and
on your election as President of the Czechoslovakian Republic.

J. Stalin – V. Molotov

("Daily Review," Berlin Ed., No. 139, 17 June, 1948)