Victory Day celebrations continued in the following years.If 9 May happened on a Saturday or Sunday in the Russian SFSR, a weekday off (typically Monday) was awarded. Despite the fact that the holiday was implemented in various Soviet republics between 19, it was only declared a non-working day in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SFSR in 1965.Throughout the Soviet Union’s existence, 9 May was observed in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc countries.Another argument was that some German troops interpreted the Reims instrument of capitulation as a surrender exclusively to the Western Allies, and that fighting continued in the East, particularly in Prague.Eisenhower concurred with Joseph Stalin’s declaration that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document. The USSR requested that a second, revised instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin since the Soviet High Command had not approved to the surrender text and because Susloparov, a very low-ranking officer, was not allowed to sign it. In the existence of French Major-General François Sevez as the official witness, Alfred Jodl (chief of staff of the German OKW) for Germany, Walter Bedell Smith for the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and Ivan Susloparov for the Soviet High Command signed an initial document in Reims on.
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