Comrade J V Stalin : Victory Speech Broadcast from Moscow at 20.00 hours (Moscow time) on May 9, 1945 COMRADES! Men and women compatriots! The great day of victory over Germany has come. Fascist Germany, forced to her knees by the Red Army and the troops of our Allies, has acknowledged herself defeated and declared unconditional surrender. On May 7 the preliminary protocol on surrender was signed in the city of Rheims. On May 8 representatives of the German High Command, in the presence of repre