I ask you, Comrade Chairman, to accept the gratitude of the Soviet government and of me personally for your friendly congratulations and wishes on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Korean People's Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

I wish the Korean people, courageously defending their national rights, success in their heroic struggle for the freedom and independence of their homeland.

I. Stalin

Pravda. 1952. October 12.