Telegrams to Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt on the North African Victories


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 telegrams to the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mr. Winston Churchill, and the President of the United States, Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

To Mr. Winston Churchill,

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.


To President Roosevelt,

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.

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