J. V. Stalin

Cables to Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt
on the North African Victory

May 7, 1943


On the night of May 7-8, J. V. Stalin, as Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the U.S.S.R., sent the following cables to the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mr. Winston Churchill, and the President of the United States, Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt:


To the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, London,

I congratulate you and the valiant British and American troops on the brilliant victory which has resulted in the liberation of Bizerta and Tunis from Hitler’s tyranny. I wish you further successes.

J. Stalin


To President Roosevelt, Washington,

I congratulate you and the valiant American and British troops on the brilliant victory which has resulted in the liberation of Bizerta and Tunis from Hitler’s tyranny. I wish you further successes.

J. Stalin