Ivan Susloparov
Soviet general
Died when: 77 years 58 days (925 months)Star Sign: Libra
Ivan Alexeyevich Susloparov (Russian: ???? ?????????? ???????´???; the surname is often transcribed in the French manner, Sousloparov) (19 October 1897 – 16 December 1974) was a Soviet general who served in World War II 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.
He signed before receiving authorization from Moscow to do so; the Soviet Union insisted on signing another Act of Military Surrender near Berlin two days later.
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