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Ivan Stepanovich Konev was a highly decorated general of Russia’s Red Army. Both highly admired and feared by Stalin, he made huge contributions to the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution through post-World War II. Some stories on his part are highly admirable and some are bone chilling.

Ivan Stepanovich Konev, one of the outstanding Soviet generals in World War II, who was a leader of the offensive against the Germans. Of peasant birth, Konev was drafted into the tsarist army in 1916. After the Russian Revolution, he joined (1918) the Communist Party and the Red Army.

Ivan Nikitich Konev ( Russian: Иван Никитич Конев; 5 January 1899 – 19 November 1983) was a Soviet major general during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Konev led the 3rd Guards Airborne Division through most of the war and was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership of the division during the ...

MOSCOW, May 21 (AP) —Marshal Ivan S. Konev, a celebrated World War II commander, has died, the official press agency Tass reported today. He was 75 years old.

Ivan Stefanovich Konev. An outstanding Soviet commander in World War II, General Ivan Stefanovich Konev (1897-1973) was a leader in the offensive against the Germans and twice named "Hero of the Soviet Union"(1944, 1945). Ivan Konev was born on Dec. 28, 1897, to a peasant family in Lodeino, Russia.

The Race to Berlin was a competition between Soviet Marshals Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev to be the first to enter Berlin during the final months of World War II in Europe. In early 1945, with Germany's defeat inevitable, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin set his two marshals in a race to capture Berlin. [1]

In a race to win the glory of capturing the city of Berlin, Soviet marshals Ivan Konev and Georgiy Zhukov were willing to accept enormous casualties and inflict colossal damage. Within five days, the two forces had linked up and encircled Berlin. Soviet artillery fired nearly two million shells during the final assault.

Ivan Stepanovich Konev was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, responsible for taking much of Axis-occupied Eastern Europe. Born to a peasant family, Konev was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1916 and fought in World War I.