Ivan Konev quotes
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“As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.”
-- Ivan KonevSource : "The Last Six Months: Russia's Final Battles with Hitler's Armies in World War II" by Sergeĭ Matveevich Shtemenko, (p. 312), 1977.
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“We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.”
-- Ivan KonevSource : "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" by Vladimir Sevruk, (p. 27), 1974.
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“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 KonevSource : "Russia at War, 1941-1945" by Alexander Werth, (p. 779), 1964.
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“I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.”
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“But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.”
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“As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.”
Source : "The Last Six Months: Russia's Final Battles with Hitler's Armies in World War II" by Sergeĭ Matveevich Shtemenko, (p. 312), 1977.
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“I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.”
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“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.”
Source : "Readers recommend: melancholy songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2015.
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“I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.”
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