Telegram of Thanks to the Minister President of the German Democratic Republic, Otto Grotewohl

On the occasion of the thirty-second anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution

November, 1949

I thank you and, through you, the Provisional government of the German

Democratic Republic, on behalf of the Soviet government and myself, for
the congratulations on the anniversary of the Socialist October

Revolution.

J. Stalin

("New Germany," No. 275, 24 November, 1949)