GREETINGS TO THE RED ARMY ON ITS FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY. To the Revolutionary Military Council of the U.S.S.R
Приветствие Красной Армии в связи с ее 15–летней годовщиной. Революционному Военному Совету Союза ССР
Saludo al ejército rojo con motivo de su XV aniversario
To the Revolutionary Military Council of the U.S.S.R. Greetings to the men, commanders and political personnel of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army! Created under the leadership of Lenin, the Red Army covered itself with undying glory in the great battles of the Civil War, in which it drove out the interventionists from the U.S.S.R. and upheld the cause of socialism in our country.
The Red Army is today a bulwark of peace and the peaceful labour of the workers and peasants, the vigilant guardian of the frontiers of the Soviet Union. The workers of our country, who have victoriously completed the five-year plan in four years, are equipping the Red Army with new instruments of defence. Your job, comrades, is to learn to handle those instruments to perfection and to do your duty to your country, should our enemies try to attack it.
Hold high the banner of Lenin, the banner of struggle for communism! Long live the heroic Red Army, its leaders, its Revolutionary Military Council!
J. Stalin
Pravda, No. 53,
February 23, 1933
REPLY TO A LETTER FROM Mr. BARNES
March 20, 1933
Dear Mr. Barnes,
Your fears as to the safety of American citizens in the U.S.S.R. are quite groundless.
The U.S.S.R. is one of the few countries in the world where a display of national hatred or an unfriendly attitude towards foreigners as such is punishable by law. There has never been, nor could there be, a case of any one becoming an object of persecution in the U.S.S.R. on account of his national origin. That is particularly true with regard to foreign specialists in the U.S.S.R., including American specialists, whose work in my opinion deserves our thanks. As for the few British employees of Metro-Vickers,67 legal action was taken against them not as Britishers but as persons who, our investigating authorities assert, have violated laws of the U.S.S.R. Was not legal action taken similarly against Russians? I do not know what bearing this case can have on American citizens. Ready to be of service to you,
J. Stalin
Published for the first time
Привет бойцам, командирам и политработникам Рабоче-Крестьянской Красной Армии!
Красная Армия, созданная под руководством Ленина, покрыла себя неувядаемой
славой в великих битвах гражданской войны, изгнав из СССР интервентов и отстояв
дело социализма в нашей стране.
Красная Армия является теперь оплотом мира и мирного труда рабочих и крестьян,
неусыпным стражем границ Советского Союза.
Рабочие нашей страны, победоносно завершив пятилетку в четыре года, вооружают
Красную Армию новыми орудиями обороны. Ваше дело, товарищи – научиться владеть
этими орудиями в совершенстве и выполнить свой долг перед страной, если враги
попытаются напасть на нее.
Держите выше знамя Ленина, знамя борьбы за коммунизм!
Да здравствует героическая Красная Армия, ее Руководители, ее Реввоенсовет!
И. Сталин
“Правда” № 53,
23 февраля 1933 г.
Al Consejo Militar Revolucionario de la U.R.S.S. ¡Un saludo a los soldados, jefes y trabajadores políticos del Ejército Rojo Obrero y Campesino! El Ejército Rojo, creado bajo la dirección de Lenin, se cubrió de gloria imperecedera en las grandes batallas de la guerra civil al expulsar de la U.R.S.S. a los intervencionistas y salvaguardar la causa del socialismo en nuestro país. El Ejército Rojo es ahora el baluarte de la paz y del trabajo pacífico de los obreros y campesinos, avizor centinela de las fronteras de la Unión Soviética. Los obreros de nuestro país, al cumplir victoriosamente el plan quinquenal en cuatro años, pertrechan al Ejército Rojo con nuevas armas de defensa. Vuestra misión, camaradas, es aprender a utilizar estas armas a la perfección y cumplir vuestro deber ante el país, si los enemigos intentan atacado. ¡Mantened en alto la bandera de Lenin, la bandera de la lucha por el comunismo! ¡Viva el heroico Ejército Rojo, sus mandos, su Consejo Militar Revolucionario! J. Stalin.
Publicado el 23 de febrero de 1933 en el núm. 63 de “Pravda”.