Lady Clementine Churchill broadcasts over Moscow Radio a message from her husband PM Sir Winston Churchill to Marshal Joseph Stalin on the day after Victory in Europe Day.
9 May 1945.
Transcript:
"It is my firm belief that on the friedship and understanding between the British and Russian peoples depends the future of mankind."
The full text of the PM's Message:
“I send you heartfelt greetings on the splendid victory you have won in driving the invader from your soil and laying the Nazi tyrant low. It is my firm belief that on friendship and understanding between the British and Russian peoples depends the future of mankind. Here in our island home we are thinking today very often about you and we send you from the bottom of our hearts our wishes for your happiness and well-being and that after all the sacrifices and sufferings of the dark valley through which we have marched together we may also in loyal comradeship and sympathy walk in the sunshine of victorious peace.”
