Ivan Stepanovitch Koniev , né le 28 décembre 1897 et mort le 21 mai 1973, est un militaire soviétique. Les commandements qu'il exerça pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale lui valurent les plus hautes distinctions : le grade de maréchal de l'Union soviétique, le titre de Héros de l'Union soviétique et l'ordre de la Victoire. Wikipedia
“As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.”
Quoted in "The Last Six Months: Russia's Final Battles with Hitler's Armies in World War II" - Page 312 - by Sergeĭ Matveevich Shtemenko - History - 1977.
Quoted in "Russia at War, 1941-1945" - Page 779 - by Alexander Werth - 1964.
Quoted in "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" - by Vladimir Sevruk - History - 1974 - Page 27.
Quoted in "The Last Battle" - Page 354 - by Cornelius Ryan - History - 1966.