Deputy commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, Soviet general Vasily Sokolovsky, general of the US Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, representative of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, Commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, Deputy People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrey Vyshinsky (L-R) participate in the signing of the Berlin Declaration proclaiming the unconditional surrender of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority over Germany by the governments of the USSR, the United Kingdom, the USA and France, Berlin, June 1945. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS