Belgrade.

I wholeheartedly thank you and the fraternal peoples of Yugoslavia for your friendly congratulations on the complete and final defeat of Hitlerite Germany.

At the same time I heartily congratulate you and the peoples of Yugoslavia on the victory over German imperialism, in the struggle against which the Yugoslav armed forces and the entire Yugoslav people showed models of courage and heroism.

I. Stalin

Pravda. 1945. May 12.