- 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 statue in Prague of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev has been vandalized on the anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- The statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev, who commanded the Red Army troops that liberated Prague in 1945, was removed from one of Prague’s...
- “Ivan Konev was a Soviet marshal and career politician of the Communist Party, a hero of the Soviet Union.
- The monument to the Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, whose troops liberated the Czech capital from the Nazis in 1945, was dismantled in Prague.
- The same people, who removed the statue of the Soviet commander, Ivan Konev built a statue of Marie Therese, an eighteenth century Habsburg empress that is...
- Plans to remove the bronze statue of Soviet general Ivan Konev triggered a sharp reaction from Moscow last year.
- He posted a photo of him bowing his head before Konev’s statue on his Twitter account, calling him “liberator of the Czech Republic and of the Auschwitz death...
- 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.
- A larger-than-life statue of Red Army Marshal Ivan Konev was taken down four years ago due to his repressive role within the Communist Eastern Bloc.