740.0011 European War 1939/27993a: Telegram
President Roosevelt to the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Stalin)27
As Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, I congratulate you on the brilliant victory at Stalingrad of the armies under your supreme command. The one hundred and sixty-two days of epic battle for the city which has forever honored your name and the decisive result which all Americans are celebrating today will remain one of the proudest chapters in this war of the peoples united against Nazism and its emulators.
The commanders and fighters of your armies at the front and the men and women who have supported them in factory and field have combined not only to cover with glory their country’s arms, but to inspire by their example fresh determination among all the United Nations to bend every energy to bring about the final defeat and unconditional surrender of the common enemy.
- This telegram, and Stalin’s acknowledgment of February 5, were printed on the front page of the Kuibyshev Volzhskaya Kommuna for February 6, 1943, without comment.↩