- The statue of Ivan Konev (Czech: Socha Ivana Koněva) was a monument to Russian general Ivan Konev that was erected in Prague in 1980.
- A statue of the Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev in Prague was daubed with the dates of 1956, 1961, 1968 and 2017 in red paint, the police reported Thursday.
- A statue in Prague of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev has been vandalized on the anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- Plans to remove the bronze statue of Soviet general Ivan Konev triggered a sharp reaction from Moscow last year.
- The monument to the Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, whose troops liberated the Czech capital from the Nazis in 1945, was dismantled in Prague.
- It is an exceptional thorn in the Czech Republic’s side, even after 2018 when Prague’s city administration added to the plaque on the statue the truth about Konev’s...
- After earlier proposals to dismantle the statue or reduce its scale were shelved, attention shifted to its glowing Czech-language inscription, crediting Konev with...
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- Before the rally, members of the public will gather in front of Konev’s monument to express support for preserving the statue of the marshal whose troops liberated...
