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Telegram to Petru Groza and Gheorghiu-Dej

1952-05-10 Romania; 75th anniversary independence

Telegram to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Rumanian People's Republic, Petru Groza, and the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Rumanian Workers' Party, Gheorgiu-Dej

On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the proclaimation of an independent Rumanian state

"Pravda," May 10, 1952

To the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Rumanian People's Republic, Comrade Petru Groza, and the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Rumanian Workers' Party, Comrade Gheorgiu-Dej.

I ask the government of the Rumanian People's Republic, the Central Committee of the Rumanian Workers' Party and you personally to accept my thanks for your friendly greetings on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the proclamation of an independent Rumanian state.

I wish the Rumanian people, the government of the People's Republic of Rumania and the Central Committee of the Rumanian Workers' Party, further success in-the building of a new, free Rumanian people's democracy.

J. Stalin

("New Germany," Berlin Ed., No. 111, 11 May, 1952)