J. V. Stalin

Order of the Day to the Don Front

February 2, 1943


DON FRONT,

To the representative of the H.Q. of the Supreme Command, Marshal of Artillery Voronov, to the Commander of the troops of the Don Front, Col.-Gen. Rokossovsky.

I congratulate you and the troops of the Don Front on the successful completion of the annihilation of the enemy forces surrounded at Stalingrad. I thank all the Red Army men, commanders and political workers of the Don Front for their excellent fighting operations.

J. Stalin
Supreme Commander-in-Chief
Moscow
February 2, 1943