However, all questions related to Marshal Konev’s monument must be referred ... pointed out that in the middle of the 1980s, the Soviet Union had called for ending ideological confrontation ...

Read also Vandals deface monument to WWII Soviet Marshal Konev in Czech Republic ... desecrating the monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Konev in Prague," the ministry said in a statement.

The Soviet Union’s most authentic popular hero ... usually ranked fifth in the Red army hierarchy after Marshals Zhukov, Konev, Vasileysky and Sokolovsky. Malinovsky is stubby, barrel-chested ...