Washington, to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 13, 1945.

Please accept my sincere condolences on the occasion of the death of your husband and the expression of my participation in your heavy grief. President Roosevelt was highly valued by the Soviet people as the great organizer of the struggle of freedom-loving nations against the common enemy and as the leader of the cause of securing peace throughout the world.

I. Stalin

Pravda. 1945. April 13.