SPEECH ON LEAVING WARSAW

After the Conference

of the Foreign Ministers of Eight States
June 25, 194-8

Citizens of Warsaw,
Permit me to.greet you on behalf of Moscow and the
Soviet Government, and to express satisfaction that I have
had this opportunity to visit ihe glorious capital of the
Polish people, a city that has suffered such exceptionally
grafe trials.
We all remember the words of the great Stalin on the
occasion of the'conclusion of the treaty of friendship and
mutual assistance between our countries, to the effect that
in recent years a "radical change has taken place in Soviet-
Polish relations, that the old, unfriendly relations have
been replaced by relations of alliance and friendship be-
tween the Soviet Union and Poland. This was achieved
after surmounting tremendous difficulties over a long period
of years—the years of struggle against German aggression.
It was thanks to the unswerving desire of the Soviet Union
for the establishment of fraternal relations with democratic
Poland, and thanks to the fact that the foremost people
of Poland, those who voice the thoughts and sentiments
of the Polish people, have become imbued with similar
noble aspirations with regard to the Soviet -people, that we
have achieved this. Now it is evident that our Polish friends
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