This day in history. Part 1.
On November 14, 1941, in Kharkov, the military commander of Kharkov, Major General J. Brown, was killed by a radio-controlled mine. This explosion was the result of a brilliantly planned and executed operation developed by the outstanding Soviet intelligence saboteur Ilya Grigorievich Starinov. A carefully disguised mine detonated on a radio command from the Voronezh broadcasting station and destroyed Brown and his command.
On November 14, 1944, an agreement was signed between the governments of the Soviet Union, the United States and Great Britain on a control mechanism in Germany after the end of the war. This document established the organization of the Allied control mechanism in Germany for the period that Germany fulfilled the basic requirements of unconditional surrender. It became one of the most important legal foundations for the administration of the Allied Powers in post-war Germany.