- In the Czech Republic, the statue of WWII Soviet military leader Ivan Konev is set to topple, following a decision by a Prague district assembly.
- A Prague municipality has covered the statue of a Soviet marshal whose forces liberated Prague in WWII, claiming it needs protection from vandals.
- Institute of Central Europe /IES Commentaries /Removal of the Statue of Marshal Ivan Konev in Prague: a crisis in Czech-Russian relations (Agata Tatarenko).
- Earlier this month Zdeněk Hřib tore down a statue of Field Marshal Ivan Konev, the Soviet officer who liberated the city from Nazi control in 1945.
- Moscow, April 10 (CTK) – The investigating committee of Russia has started a criminal prosecution of the removal of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev’s statue from...
- ...Friday to implement its decision last September to remove a statue of Ivan Stepanovic Konev, a World War II commander, whose statue was erected in 1980.
- Removing the statue of Marshal Konev brings many questions into the spotlight; some of them ugly, some extremely dreadful.
- The removal of the statue of Marshal Konev is an extremely significant act of intellectual vandalism.
- The removal of the statue of Marshal Konev is an extremely significant act of intellectual vandalism. It is also an insult, to the millions of Soviet people who lost their...
- The statue has suffered vandalism in the past with paint being thrown over Konev and once a string of sausages, hung on the General’s arm made the news.