Ivan Konev

Ivan Stepanovich Konev (Russian: Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев; 28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1897 – 21 May 1973), was a Soviet military commander, who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, retook much of Eastern Europe from occupation by the Axis Powers, and helped in the capture of Germany's capital, Berlin.

In 1956, as the Commander of Warsaw Pact forces, Konev led the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution by Soviet armoured divisions.

Early life

Konev was born on 28 December 1897 into a peasant family near Podosinovets in Vologda Governorate (now Kirov Oblast). He had little formal education and worked as a lumberjack.

Military career

In 1916 He was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army.

When the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917 he was demobilised and returned home, but in 1919 he joined the Bolshevik party and the Red Army, serving as an artilleryman. During the Russian Civil War he served with the Red Army in the Russian Far Eastern Republic. His commander at this time was Kliment Voroshilov, later a close colleague of Joseph Stalin and Commissar for defense. This alliance was the key to Konev's subsequent career.

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A worker covers the statue of a Soviet World War II commander Marshall Ivan Stepanovic Konev after its been removed from its site in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, April 3, 2020.

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He complained that the tearing down of a monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, whose troops put an end to the six-year Nazi occupation of the Czech capital back in 1945, had “provoked a completely inappropriate reaction from Russia.” Russian diplomats and other officials, Kolar ......

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1 ... Y. Egorov/Sputnik. 2 ... Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front or the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of Ivan Konev ... Konev got so carried away that his armies broke through the demarcation lines between the two fronts, causing confusion and turmoil in the rear of Zhukov’s troops ... Getty Images. 3 ... Georgy Khomzor/Sputnik. 4 ... Getty Images. 5 ... 6 ... Getty Images....

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The story was based on anonymous sources ... Lavrov scoffed at the allegations ... “Would any sound person believe in these fabrications?”. Moscow and Prague have been at loggerheads for weeks after Kolar’s district removed the statue of Soviet World War II military commander Ivan Konev whose armies liberated Prague from Nazi occupation ... All rights reserved....

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By 16 April, the Russians had arrived to commence the Battle of Berlin, bringing 2.5 million men and 6,525 tanks to the doorstep of the world’s third-largest city on three fronts, commanded in turn by marshals Georgy Zhukov, Ivan Konev and Konstantin Rokossovky ... “Crocuses struggled out of the rubble ... Only the birds were missing ... View photos. (Getty) ... ....

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A particular bone of contention has been the decision by the Prague 6 council to remove a statue of Marshal Ivan Konev, the Red Army commander, from a square and relocate it in a museum. The statue of former Red Army commander Ivan Konev is seen by some Czech's as a symbol of ......

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Yahoo Daily News 29 Apr 2020

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... of Sergei Skripal – they all are connected to the story about the demolition of the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev....

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