Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, The British Commonwealth, Eastern Europe, the Far East, Volume III

740.0011 European War 1939/31788: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, November 1, 1943.
[Received November 2—2:48 p.m.]

1804. The 54 slogans formulated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in connection with the forthcoming November 7 celebrations which are published in the Moscow papers for October 30, call for continued unremitting efforts to hasten victory and expel the German invader from Soviet soil.⁹ All branches of the armed forces are urged to strike down and destroy the enemy. The slogan for the infantry includes the following directive: “Surround and capture the German occupants but if they refuse to surrender destroy them.”

An appeal is directed to the “brothers and sisters, Russians, Ukrainians, Belo-Russians, Moldavians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Karelians temporarily under the yoke of the German Fascist scoundrels. The hour of delivery is coming. Fan the flame of the Partisan movement of all the peoples. Kill the German scoundrels. Aid the Red army with all your strength.[”] Increased production is urged in separate appeals to munition workers and those producing tanks, planes, petroleum, coal, metals, motors, to workers in the building trades, textile workers and workers in the food and light industries. The railway workers are asked to strengthen their discipline. There are also separate slogans for water transport workers, agricultural and the Soviet intelligentsia. Several of these appeals stress the need for providing adequate supplies not only for the front but also for the rear and for reconstruction in the liberated regions.

Five of slogans addressed to groups outside the Soviet Union are quoted in translation:

(4) Greetings to the peoples of Europe fighting against Hitler imperialism. Patriots of European countries rise up in armed struggle for your liberation from the Fascist yoke. Overthrow the Hitler tyranny.

(5) Subjugated Slav brothers. Fan wide the flame of peoples’ war against German oppressors the mortal foes of Slavism. Long live the armed struggle of the Slav peoples against the Hitler imperalists.

(6) Long live the victory of the Anglo-Soviet-American military alliance over the evil enemies of humanity, the German Fascist enslavers. All of the forces and military might of the freedom loving nations for the most rapid destruction of Hitlerite Germany.

(7) And long live the valiant Anglo-American troops battling against the German Fascists on Italian territory.

(8) Greetings to the Anglo-American aviators who are striking blows at the vital centers of Fascist Germany.

Harriman

9. To compare the slogans with the 52 slogans for the XXV anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, see telegram: No. 967, October 31, 1942, 4 p.m., from the Chargé in the Soviet Union, Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. iii, p. 471.