THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT
OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION

Speech at a Celebration

Meeting of the Moscow Soviet

November 6, 1947

Comrades,
Today the peoples of the Soviet Union are celebrating
a.date of notable significance to the working people of the
whole world, the 30th anniversary of the Great October
Socialist Revolution.
We, Soviet people, are not alone these days in the joy
we experience on the occasion of the grand victories of
Socialism in our country. Not only in the countries friendly
to us are there millions of devoted friends of the U.S.S.R.
Wherever capitalism rules, oppressing men of labour or
enslaving the toilers of the colonies and dependencies,
people with awakened minds see in the achievements of
the Soviet Union the approach of their own emancipation
from oppression and enslavement. There is no country in
the world where among the working class, among the
working peasants and in broad democratic circles the
Soviet Union does not already have numerous friends
imbued with warm sympathy and faith in our cause.
That is why today, on the 30th anniversary of the Soviet
Revolution, our October banner, the victorious banner of
Lenin and Stalin, waves so high aloft. (Stormy applause.}
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