- The municipal district of Prague 6 has ordered to remove the statue of Ivan Konev, a controversial Red Army general during WWII.
- The statue was installed in 1980 to commemorate Konev’s liberation of Prague from the Nazis in 1945, although some historians claim that Konev arrived once...
- The statue to Marshal Ivan Konev, who led Red Army forces during World War Two that drove Nazi troops from Czechoslovakia, is reviled by some in Prague as a...
- One of its greatest military leaders, in fact a military genius and true hero, Marshal Ivan Konev, commanded the 1st Ukrainian Front, the one which liberated both...
- At the end of WW2 in May 1945, Konev (1897-1973) helped the liberation of Prague.
- In Prague, they restored one of Saint Mary, and took down one of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev.
- This one, though, is very much official - a bronze statue of Ivan Stepanovich Konev, the Soviet general whose forces liberated much of the country from the Nazis.
- “Ivan Konev was a Soviet marshal and career politician of the Communist Party, a hero of the Soviet Union.
- 5 Minute Biography: From Legendary World War II Triumphs to Controversial Legacy: Marshal Ivan Konev 05:25.
- Man covers the statue of Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovic Konev laying on a truck as it is made ready for removal on...