Stalin was not pleased about the May 7 surrender and insisted on one the following day in Berlin. The Russian general who witnessed the surrender in Rheims was recalled to Moscow and summarily shot.
According to Wikipedia, General Ivan Susloparov died in 1974.
“Stalin was not pleased about the May 7 surrender and insisted on one the following day in Berlin. The Russian general who witnessed the surrender in Rheims was recalled to Moscow and summarily shot.”
Why do people post stuff here that can so easly be refuted. the Russina General was Ivan Alexeyevich Susloparov and he died in 1974 so obvouisly Stalin did not have him summarily shot.
Ivan Alexeyevich Susloparov, the surname is often transcribed in the French manner, Sousloparov) (19 October 1897 – 16 December 1974) was a Soviet general who served as the Military Liaison Mission Commander with the French government and the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe in 1944–45. He is mostly known as the person who signed for the Soviet Union the German Instrument of Surrender on May 7, 1945. However, since he did not have an authorization from Moscow to do so, the Soviet Union insisted on signing another Act of Military Surrender near Berlin two days later.