To the 76th anniversary of the Great Victory
Vasily Semyonovich Chochiev (December 12 [25], 1917, the village of Orteu, now the Tskhinval district of South Ossetia - January 8, 1947) - Hero of the Soviet Union (November 1, 1943), major (1944), military pilot.
May 9 marks the 76th anniversary of the Great Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. Actually, the date of May 9 is largely conditional: Berlin was completely taken on May 2, and on May 8 the Hitlerite military command signed the Act of Unconditional Surrender for the second time.
The act was originally signed by representatives of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, the High Command of the Western Allies and the Soviet Union on May 7 at 02:41 CET in Reims, France. The surrender of Nazi Germany took effect on May 8 at 23:01 CET (May 9 at 01:01 Moscow time).