861.00/11961: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Henderson) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 3—10:11 p.m.]
967. The Soviet press of October 28 published 52 slogans prepared by the Central Committee of the Party for use in connection with the 25th Anniversary of the Revolution.50 There is nothing of an international revolutionary content in any of them. Most of them are calculated to stimulate the Soviet war effort, to strengthen confidence in the Government and State, to arouse patriotism. Among those of an international nature which might be of interest are the following:
No. [7]. Brother oppressed Slavs! Arise in sacred people’s war against the Hitlerite imperialists—the mortal enemies of Slavism! Long live the militant unity of the Slavic peoples!
[Page 472]No. 8. Long live the military alliance of the armed forces the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States of America, and other freedom loving peoples who are waging a just war of liberation against German-Italian bandit imperialism!
No. 27. Brothers and Sisters: Russians, Ukrainians, White Russians, Moldavians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians and Karelians who have temporarily fallen under the yoke of the German Fascist villains I Mercilessly annihilate the Fascist aggressors and kindle the fire of the popular guerrilla movement!
The last three slogans are: No. 50. Communists and young Communists! Be in the first ranks of those who fight against the German Fascist aggressors! No. 51. Long live our glorious fatherland, its freedom and its independence! No. 52. Long live the All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the Party of Lenin and Stalin—the organizer of the struggle for victory over the German Fascist aggressors!
- Regarding, the slogans for the 1941 anniversary of the October Revolution, see telegram No. 1872, November 3, 1941, from the Ambassador in the Soviet Union, ibid., p. 653.↩