Ivan Konev Quotes
28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1897 – May 21, 1973
More Ivan Konev Quotes
As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.
Ivan Konev— Quoted in "The Last Six Months: Russia's Final Battles with Hitler's Armies in World War II" - Page 312 - by Serge? Matveevich Shtemenko - History - 1977
We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.
Ivan Konev— Quoted in "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" - by Vladimir Sevruk - History - 1974 - Page 27
Our neighbors use searchlights, for they want more light. I tell you, Nikolai Pavlovich, we need more darkness.
Ivan Konev— Quoted in "The Last Battle" - Page 354 - by Cornelius Ryan - History - 1966
Konev was a tall, gruff, vigorous man with a shrewd twinkle in his blue eyes. He was 48 years old, a year younger than Zhukov, and in some respects his career had paralleled the other man's.
Ivan Konev— Cornelius Ryan
Konev was a mental robot, saying only what had been written for him, as though his tongue moved only when wound by a key in the Kremlin.
Ivan Konev— General Mark Wayne Clark, New York Times, June 5, 1955.
Like his rival Zhukov, Konev was a man of iron will, but he did not hail from such a disadvantaged background, and he was unique among Soviet high commanders in having begun his military career as a political officer.
Ivan Konev— Christopher Duffy
I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.
Ivan Konev— Quoted in "Russia at War, 1941-1945" - Page 779 - by Alexander Werth - 1964
