Together with the Red Army, the 1st Polish Army stormed Berlin in the Spring of 1945. The Poles made up a tenth of all the ...

The head of the federal agency he works for in Moscow dismissed the reports as a "pure provocation", linked to an ongoing row over the removal of a statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev in Prague.

I feel that this is my personal duty." Details: Fico also reiterated that Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev "deserves a monument in Slovakia" for leading the Battle of the Dukla Pass. Background ...

TASS/. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has called for commemorating Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev for personal contribution to liberating his country from Nazism. Fico explained his idea in an ...

By the end of the second day, the forces of bald, hard-driving General Ivan Konev had opened a breach 28 miles wide, 16 miles deep, soon pushed the wedge southward at a fast pace. By this week ...

Czech President Milos Zeman, "a man of culture, has stated his negative opinion on the removal of the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev, he made his opinion known", Russian Minister of Culture ...

Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation It was a ‘Willys’ that American General Omar Bradley presented to Marshal Ivan Konev during their meeting in Germany in May 1945. In return ...

Then I remembered. The last time we met was shortly before a vote at Prague 6 district council to move a 1980 bronze statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev. The World War Two commander certainly ...

Workers load on a truck the monument of Soviet era World War II Commander Ivan Konev after removing it from its pedestal in Prague, Czech Republic, 3 April 2020. [Martin Divisek/EPA/EFE] The mayor ...

To underscore the seriousness of the new situation, trailing along behind Khrushchev was egg-bald Ivan Konev, commander in chief of the Warsaw Pact forces. Khrushchev was in a towering rage.

The monument of Soviet era World War II Commander Ivan Konev is stained with pink color, in Prague, Czech Republic, 8 May 2018. [Martin Divisek/EPA/EFE] A district assembly in Prague voted on ...

I feel that this is my personal duty." Details: Fico also reiterated that Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev "deserves a monument in Slovakia" for leading the Battle of the Dukla Pass. Recently, Fico said that ...