“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 Sergeĭ Matveevich Shtemenko - History - 1977.

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