Ivan Konev quotes

“As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.”
-- Ivan Konev

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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“We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.”
-- Ivan Konev

Source : "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 Konev

Source : "Russia at War, 1941-1945" by Alexander Werth, (p. 779), 1964.

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“The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.”

“To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!”

“Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.”

“In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger -- a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...”

“I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.”

“But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.”

“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.

“I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.”

“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.”

Source : "Readers recommend: melancholy songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2015.

“I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.”