Marshal Konev bronze monument. Konev Ivan Stepanovich Govorov Leonid Alexandrovich

Konev Ivan Stepanovich
16(28).12.1897–27.06.1973

Marshal of the Soviet Union

Born in the Vologda region in the village of Lodeino in a peasant family. In 1916 he was drafted into the army. After graduating from the training team, he served as a junior non-commissioned officer art. division, was sent to the Southwestern Front. He joined the Red Army in 1918, took part in the battles against the troops of Admiral Kolchak, Ataman Semenov, and the Japanese. He was the commissioner of the armored train "Grozny", after which the brigades and divisions. In 1921 he took part in the storming of Kronstadt. In 1934 he graduated from the Academy. Frunze, commanded a regiment, division, corps, 2nd Separate Red Banner Far Eastern Army (1938–1940).

During the Great Patriotic War, under the pseudonyms Stepin and Kievsky, he commanded the fronts and the army. He took part in 1941 in the battles of Smolensk and Kalinin, in the defense of Moscow in 1941-1942. During the Kursk operation, together with the army of General N.F. Vatutin on the Belgorod-Kharkov bridgehead destroyed the enemy. On August 5, 1943, troops led by Konev liberated the city of Belgorod, and in this honor Moscow gave its first salutes in honor of the victories. On August 24, Kharkov was taken by Konev's troops. After that, the breakthrough of the "Eastern Wall" on the Dnieper was realized.

In 1944, near Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, the enemy staged something like “New Stalingrad” - they managed to surround and destroy 10 divisions, as well as 1 brigade of General V. Stemmeran, who was also killed on the battlefield.

On February 20, 1944, Konev received the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union; on March 26, 1944, the army of the 1st Ukrainian Front, having driven out the enemy, was the first to reach the state border.

In July-August, under the command of Konev, they managed to destroy the Northern Ukraine Army Group under the leadership of Field Marshal E. von Manstein during the Lvov-Sandomierz operation. The name of Marshal Konev is directly related to the outstanding victories of the Red Army in the last stages of the war in the Vistula-Oder, Berlin, and Prague operations. During the Berlin operation, Konev's troops reached the river. Elbe at Torgau and met with the American military General O. Bradley. On May 9, 1945, the defeat of Field Marshal Scherner near Prague was completed. The highest orders of the "White Lion" of the 1st class and the "Czechoslovak Military Cross of 1939" were given to Konev for the liberation of Prague as awards. Moscow saluted 57 times in honor of his outstanding victories. At the end of the Great Patriotic War, Konev was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces and the first Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the States Parties to the Warsaw Pact (1956–1960).

Marshal I. S. Konev was twice awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, he is a hero of Czechoslovakia and the Mongolian People's Republic. His bronze bust is installed in his homeland in the village of Lodeino.

two Gold Stars of the Hero of the Soviet Union (07/29/1944, 06/1/1945),
7 orders of Lenin,
Order "Victory" (03/30/1945),
order of the October Revolution,
3 Orders of the Red Banner,
2 orders of Suvorov 1st degree,
2 orders of Kutuzov 1st degree,
order of the Red Star,
a total of 17 orders and 10 medals;
honorary nominal weapon - a saber with the Golden Emblem of the USSR (1968),
24 foreign awards (including 13 foreign orders).

V.A. Egorshin, Field Marshals and Marshals. M., 2000

Konev Ivan Stepanovich

Born on December 16 (December 28), 1897 in the village of Lodeyno, Podosinovsky District, Kirov Region, in a peasant family, Russian by nationality. In 1912 he graduated from the zemstvo school, in 1926 he took advanced training courses for senior officers at the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze, and in 1934 he graduated from the special faculty of the same academy.

He served in the Soviet Army from August 1918 to June 1919 as military commissar of the Nikolsky district military commissariat of the Northern Territory, was a commissar of an armored train, then a brigade commander and a division commander, in November 1922 he became chief of the army headquarters, after which from August 1924 1925, he took the post of corps commander, and from September 1925 he headed a rifle division. During the certification of 1926, it was indicated that Konev showed initiative, was energetic, and also a determined commander. The military, as well as the general outlook, is not very bad.

From July 1926 to March 1930, he served as commander of the military commissar of the regiment, after which, from March 1930 to March 1931, he was assistant and acting commander of a rifle division, then from March 1931 to December 1932. was a division commander. And in December 1934 he served as commander of a rifle division.

In the certification conducted in 1936, it was especially noted that Konev, after graduating from the academy, had a very satisfactory military training, holding the post of division commander, had good skills, as evidenced by the maneuvers of 1936. Character - firm and persistent. From September 1937 to September 1938, Konev served as commander of a special rifle corps, then until June 1940 he commanded an army, after which he led the troops of the Trans-Baikal, then the North Caucasian military districts.

During the Great Patriotic War from June to October 1941 he was commander of the 19th Army, for one month he served as deputy commander of the Western Front. From November 1941 to August 1942 he commanded the troops of the Kalinin Front. In February 1943 he headed the Western Front, from March to June 1943 the North-Western Front, from June 1943 to May 1944 he was the commander of the Steppe Front, as well as the 1st Ukrainian Front from May 1944 to May 1945 At the end of the war from May 1945 to April 1946, I.S. Konev served as Commander-in-Chief of the Central Group of Forces in Austria, then from June 1946 to March 1950 he was First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces - Deputy Minister of Defense for the Ground Forces, after which from March 1950 to November 1951 Konev held post of Chief Inspector of the Soviet Army - Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR, from November 1951 to March 1955 Commander of the Carpathian Military District until March 1956 First Deputy Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces from April 1960 First Deputy Minister of Defense for general issues, until April 1962, Konev was in the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, after which, from May 1973, he again became Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense.

Military ranks: commander of the 2nd rank - awarded in March 1939, lieutenant general - June 4, 1940, colonel general - September 19, 1941, army general - August 26, 1943, Marshal of the Soviet Union - February 20, 1944 G.

He was a member of the CPSU since 1918, a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1952, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st-8th convocations. I.S. died. Konev on May 21, 1973. He was buried in Moscow on Red Square near the Kremlin wall.

Tomorrow, November 24, exactly 60 years have passed since the solemn opening in the village of Lodeyno of a monument - a bronze bust to our great countryman, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal.
The bust was installed by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 1, 1945 on awarding the commander with the second Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union and the construction of a bronze bust with the image of the awarded and installing it on a pedestal in the recipient's homeland.
Here is how this historical event is described in the regional newspaper "Kolkhoz Banner" No. 62 of December 29, 1950:

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“December 24 in the village. Lodeyno of the Shchetkinsky Village Council in a solemn atmosphere, the opening of the bust of our glorious fellow countryman, twice Hero of the Soviet Union I.S. Konev.
At least 700 people came to the celebration, incl. representatives of the city of Kirov and adjacent regions: Lalsky, Oparinsky, Murashinsky.
The rally opened before. the executive committee of the district council comrade Filev (Arkady Alexandrovich - author's note).
The first word on behalf of the regional committee of the RCP (b) and the regional executive committee was taken by the deputy. Previous executive committee comrade. Mazin, who, after a short speech characterizing the general political significance of the celebration, cut the cord of the drapery covering the bust.
The eyes of those present were presented with a majestic sculptural portrait of the glorious commander, mounted on a granite pedestal (sculptor E.V. Vuchetich).
After that, speeches were made by secretary. District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Ya.F. Chebykin (in 1943, I.S. Konev personally presented Ya.F. Chebykin with the medal "For Military Merit" on the North-Western Front, recognized him as a fellow countryman and talked with him), the secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol A.N. Kuznetsovsky, a representative of the pioneers of the region, Natasha Kossova, and others.
In conclusion, the head MTF of the collective farm "Druzhba" F.V. Sinitsyn, who personally knows Marshal, shared interesting touches from his biography.
At the rally, a telegram from twice Hero of the Soviet Union I.S. Konev and sent him a welcome telegram on behalf of all those present ... ".
The bust of the great commander has been standing for 60 years on the territory of the I.S. Konev”, but did not become less majestic and significant from this. A beautiful square of apple and larch trees planted in the seventies grew around the monument, a paved area and a cast-iron fence around it appeared.
Without any doubt, a monument of federal significance - a bronze bust twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal I.S. Konevu is one of the main attractions of our region, which we have the right to be proud of and are proud of. It must be said that only I.S. Konev’s bust and his native house, which has been turned into a memorial museum, have been preserved and not moved anywhere in his homeland.
Only in the last 30 years in the “Memorial House-Museum of I.S. Konev” was visited by over 100 thousand people. And at present, the memory of our great countryman attracts people to his homeland in the village of Lodeyno. Regular visitors to the museum are schoolchildren of the district, members of military-patriotic clubs. Buses arrive with visitors from the Luzsky district, from V-Ustyug, from Nikolsk and Kichmengsky Gorodok. Many residents of the area bring their guests to see the monument and visit the memorial museum. And everyone, without exception, takes with them only positive and enthusiastic impressions from touching their native history and the memory of the great commander.
N. V. Shutikhin Director of the I. S. Konev Museum House

The decision to install three boards on the monument to the Soviet military leader - in Czech, Russian and English - was made by the administration of the sixth Prague district on the eve of the 120th anniversary of the birth of the marshal, who was born on December 19 (28), 1897.

The mayor of the Prague-6 district, Ondřej Kolář, in an interview with the Russian service of Radio Prague, said that at their meeting the members of the municipal council approved the following text: “Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev commanded the 1st Ukrainian Front, whose units took part in the decisive offensive against Berlin and the liberation of the northern, central and eastern parts of the Czech Republic, and were also the first to enter Prague on May 9, 1945. In the autumn of 1956, Marshal Konev commanded the bloody suppression of the Hungarian uprising by the forces of the Soviet army, and in 1961 in Berlin, as commander of a group of Soviet troops, he participated in the denouement of the so-called Second Berlin Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall. In the summer of 1968, Marshal Konev personally led the intelligence work before the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia.

Information boards on the monument should appear before the end of June 2018 - by this time the general restoration of the monument to Ivan Konev will be completed. The district administration intends to invest about 650,000 crowns (more than 25,000 euros) in restoration and repair work.

The plans of the municipality do not like the representatives of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic and Moravia.

A member of the municipal council of the Prague-6 district and the city council of Prague from the communist party, Ivan Gruz, in an interview with Radio Prague, said that not all voters supported the installation of the signs - out of 45 members of the council, 29 people voted in favor. At the same time, as Ivan Gruza emphasized, only two people openly expressed their categorical disagreement with this project.

Ivan Gruza considers the placement of plaques on the monument to Konev "an insult to the memory of the victims suffered by the Red Army during the liberation of Europe." Therefore, a member of the Communist Party is sure, they should not be there.

“If we conducted an “audit” of the biographies of all those people who have monuments erected in Prague, we would learn a lot of interesting facts about them. However, no one wants to do this, and this idea concerns only one single monument. The initiative comes from former members of the TOP-09 party, who are now supported by another right-wing party - the Civic Democrats.

“First the tank was painted pink, and then it disappeared”

The board, which it was decided to place there, diverts attention from the essence of the monument itself. This monument was erected to the liberator, a representative of the Red Army, commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front, whose units liberated Czechoslovakia and Prague. I also take the liberty of recalling the more than 140,000 Red Army soldiers who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. Now they must disappear from the memory of the people of Prague? All this is just a continuation of what began shortly after 1989. Then the monument to the Red Army soldiers, erected in the Prague district of Smichov, was repainted in pink. Tank number 23 stood there, symbolizing the entry of the Red Army into Prague on May 9, 1945. Soon this tank was removed, "- reminds the representative of the Communist Party Ivan Gruz.

Bronze Konev will remain in place

The mayor of the Prague-6 district, Ondřej Kolář, from the TOR-09 party, refutes suspicions of an intention to remove the monument to the Soviet marshal, which currently stands on the International Brigade Square.

“The Communist Party of the Czech Republic and Moravia, a descendant of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, who died in the Bose, is trying to form an opinion in society that my colleagues and I from the administration of the Prague-6 district are striving to “rewrite history by removing the monument to Marshal Konev” or somehow downplay its significance.

"It is necessary that people know all the pages of the history of the twentieth century"

I never wanted to remove the monument to Marshal Konev. If this had to be done, then no later than 1990, when revolutionary moods were strong in society. It was then that the monument to Lenin was removed from Victory Square (Vítězné nám.). Monuments to Konev and Lenin stood almost nearby - the International Brigade Square is located a kilometer from Victory Square.

However, I believe that the person to whom this monument was erected, whether we like it or not, is an inseparable part of Czech history. He commanded the 1st Ukrainian Front, parts of which took part in the liberation of the Czechoslovak Republic, or rather the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Nobody can take that away, it happened, it's a given. That is why I said that this monument should remain here, however…. Since the monument sins with historical inaccuracy - it states that "Marshal Konev saved Prague from destruction" - we must supplement the monument with information boards on which historical facts will be given, allowing passers-by to independently draw conclusions about who Marshal Konev really was . It is necessary that people know about all the intertwining of historical events in the 20th century, when in the blink of an eye the allies became enemies, and the liberators became occupiers, and other similar historical contradictions that also took place, ”- the headman of the Prague-6 district, Ondřej Kolář, is sure.

“There are also dark sides in the biographies of Churchill and Masaryk”

Member of the Municipal Council of Prague-6 Ivan Gruz does not believe the words of the head of the district: “Mr. Starosta today claims that everything that happens does not concern the future fate of the monument, that he decided to leave it in its place. The approach to the issue of the monument to Konev is individual, specific, tendentious. I want to remind you that placing additional informational plaques on the monuments is not something that happens in the order of things. In Prague, for example, there are monuments to Churchill and Masaryk. The biographies of these people also have something to pay attention to.

Churchill, for example, kept the colonial possessions of Great Britain by force. At the end of World War II, he supported the bombing of Dresden. He was indifferent to the fate of the 2.5 million Bengalis who were dying in the 1940s.

Or look at Masaryk, the first Czechoslovak president and supreme commander. Under him, they shot at people who were on strike, wanting a better life, because they had no work. The gendarmes also shot at children. However, you will not find an additional information board anywhere on the monuments to Churchill or Masaryk.

I repeat that everything that is happening is tendentious, and this is just a stage on the way to achieving a single goal - to achieve the disappearance of the monument to Marshal Konev from public space, ”- considers the representative of the parliamentary Communist Party.

Let's go back to the mayor of Prague-6 Ondrej Kolář. Were there ever plans to remove the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev?

“Plans to change the monument to Konev existed for a long time”

“To answer this question, I need to delve deeper into history. In 1992 or 1993, the District Cultural Commission discussed a similar topic, as we do today. They pondered the fate of the monument - to remove or leave in place? A group of historians and other specialists was formed by the deputy headman, Mrs. Frankenberg, who were to discuss everything. The answer was unequivocal - the monument should be preserved, but the inscription on it should be changed, since the current text does not correspond to reality. The implementation of the plan, however, was delayed for some time, although a text had already been developed for discussion in the district council.

Again, the monument to Marshal Konev was discussed in 2009–10, when plans for the general reconstruction of the International Brigade Square were ready. There should have been underground garages. Changes were to be made to the monument as well. It was supposed to become less pompous, the pedestal was to be reduced, and the entire monument was supposed to be moved a little further from Yugoslav Partisan Avenue.

The project was discussed with the Embassy of the Russian Federation. The ambassador supported him, emphasizing only that there should be a place for laying flowers and wreaths at the monument. The administration, of course, agreed. These plans also turned out to be frozen.

The next time they talked about Konev was in 2014 in connection with the preparations for the celebration of the anniversary of the end of World War II. Then several people spoke at the municipal council, who said that the monument "is a shame" and called for it to be removed. It was then that we declared that the appropriate moment for the removal of the monument had already been missed and proposed placing information boards on it. The Russian embassy then accused us of "an attempt to rewrite history."

Well, this year, since the project for the reconstruction of the monument is almost ready, we again turned to the Russian Embassy with this information and explanations that our actions are not at all connected with the desire to rewrite history and offer its alternative interpretation.

Donate Konev's sculpture to the Russian embassy?

However, it was also written in the letter that if the Russian representation interferes with the implementation of projects that are within the competence of the self-government body, and in the case of the repair of the monument owned by the district, this is exactly the case, then we will be forced to look for other options, as with the monument get by. One of these options, although ambiguous, is the transfer of the statue of Marshal Konev as a gift to the embassy of the Russian Federation, which will prevent its damage. And this happens almost every day.”

According to the mayor of the sixth district of Prague, Ondřej Kolář, the Russian diplomatic mission, by the time the interview was recorded, had not responded to the mentioned letter.

Same Approach

In connection with the decision to place information boards on the monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, the question arises - why, in this case, not to supplement all the monuments installed in the country with such signs?

We again give the floor to Ivan Gruz, a member of the Municipal Council of Prague-6 from the Communist Party of the Czech Republic and Moravia: “If such a decision was supported by the majority, and it would be about supplementing various monuments with information boards, then this option would be acceptable. However, this is not discussed at present. Now we are talking about a single case, with a specific approach to the problem.

This situation was created by a part of the representatives of the right political spectrum. Unfortunately, some members of the council did not understand the point. They think that this is only about additional information that needs to be provided to citizens, which is why they joined the ranks of those who supported the mentioned decision. However, we are not talking about a 100% majority here.

Ondřej Kolář takes a slightly different position: “They gave me Winston Churchill as an example. Why, they say, we do not want to supplement his monument with an information board, because he did not only good deeds. The death of 3,000 Bengalis is cited as an example. The death of the Bengalis is a terrible episode of history, but it has nothing to do with the history of Czechoslovakia. As far as I know, Churchill has nothing to do with any of the cases of the occupation of Czechoslovakia. In this he differs from Marshal Konev, who in 1968 conducted reconnaissance training before the Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia.

The key condition is the connection of a historical figure with Czech history

My answer is yes, to supplement the monuments with information that will clarify who this person was. However, such people who have a monument with additional information boards should have a connection with the history of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia, and if there is no such connection, let the biographies of such people be studied in history lessons. As for Marshal Konev, his connection with Czechoslovak history is very expressive. Unfortunately, both positive and negative.

Ivan Stepanovich Konev was born on December 16 (28), 1897 in the village of Lodeyno, Shchetkinsky volost, Nikolsky district, Vologda province (now Podosinovsky district, Kirov region), in a peasant family. He graduated from a rural school and a zemstvo school. From the age of 12 he worked at a timber rafting and on his father's farm.
In 1916 he was called up for military service: he was a soldier of the 2nd heavy artillery brigade in Moscow, then graduated from the training team and became a junior fireworker of the 2nd separate artillery division. After demobilization in 1918. joined the ranks of the RCP (b), a member of the Nikolsky district executive committee and the military commissar of the district. During the Civil War, he volunteered for the front, fought against the troops of A.V. Kolchak, G.M. Semenov, and the Japanese invaders. He was the commissar of an armored train, a rifle brigade, a division, and showed military talent and courage. In 1921 r. as a delegate to the Tenth Congress of the RCP(b) he took part in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion. In 1921 - 1922. I.S. Konev - commissar of the headquarters of the "People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic", in 1923 - 1924. - 17th Primorsky Rifle Corps, and then - 17th Rifle Division. When in 1924 the division was relocated to the Moscow Military District, its commander K.E. Voroshilov suggested: “You, Comrade Konev, according to our observations, are a commissar with a commanding vein. This is a happy combination. Go to team courses, learn.”

In 1926, Ivan Stepanovich graduated from advanced training courses for senior officers at the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze. And in 1934 he completed his studies at a special faculty of the same academy (“he mastered the academic course perfectly and is worthy of promotion to the position of commander and commissar of the rifle corps”). In 1934 -1941. commanded a division, a corps, a special group of Soviet troops in the MPR, the 2nd separate Red Banner Far Eastern Army, troops of the Transbaikal and North Caucasian military districts. In July 1938, he was awarded the rank of commander, and in March 1939 - commander of the 2nd rank.
I.S. Konev began World War II as commander of the 19th Army. For successful military operations near Smolensk, Konev was awarded the rank of colonel general.
On September 12, 1941, a high appointment came to the post of commander of the troops of the Western Front (September - October 1941). In the battles near Vyazma, I.S. Konev suffered a severe defeat from the Nazi troops. He was saved from trial and execution by G.K. Zhukov, who, with his characteristic frankness, declared to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief that people who have combat experience should be valued.
In November 1941 I.S. Konev - Commander of the Kalinin Front, Western Front (from August 1942 to February 1943), North-Western Front (March - June 1943), Steppe Front (June 1943 - May 1944), 1st Ukrainian Front ( May 1944 - May 1945).

The troops under the command of Ivan Stepanovich Konev inflicted a number of defeats on the German troops during the defense of Moscow, liberated the city of Kalinin, and in January - April 1942 advanced 250 km in the Vitebsk direction. During the battle on the Kursk Bulge, the troops of the Steppe Front took part in the Belgorod-Kharkov direction, liberated the cities of Belgorod and Kharkov. For the successful conduct of the Belgorod-Kharkov offensive operation, Ivan Stepanovich was awarded the rank of army general.
However, of course, especially the talent of I.S. Konev, as an outstanding and experienced commander, manifested itself during the brilliantly carried out Korsun-Shevchenko operation, which was also called "Stalingrad on the Dnieper".
02/20/1944 for the skillful organization and excellent leadership of the troops in the Korsun-Shevchenko operation, during which a large enemy group was surrounded and destroyed, Army General I.S. Konev received the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
The name of I.S. Konev, who was called the “general forward”, is associated with brilliant victories at the final stage of World War II - in the Vistula-Oder, Berlin and Prague operations. 57 times Moscow saluted the troops led by Marshal Konev.

I.S.Konev successfully applied the combat experience gained during World War II during the training and education of Soviet soldiers in the postwar period. In peacetime, Ivan Stepanovich was Commander-in-Chief of the Central Group of Forces in Austria (1945 - 1946), Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces and Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR (1946 - 1950), Chief Inspector of the Soviet Army, Deputy Minister of War of the USSR (1950 - 1951 years), commander of the Carpathian military district (1951 - 1955). In 1956 - 1960. served as 1st Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR for General Affairs and Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, in May 1955 - June 1960 - Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact Member States, and from April 1962 - in the Group of General Inspectors of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, in 1961 - 1962. - Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and again Inspector General of the USSR Ministry of Defense (until May 1973).
From 1931 to 1934 - Member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, candidate member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks from 1939 to 1952, member of the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1962, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st - 8th convocations.
Ivan Stepanovich Konev died on May 21, 1973, he was buried in Moscow on Red Square near the Kremlin wall.
The bronze bust of the great commander is installed in his homeland in the village of Lodeyno. His name was given to the Alma-Ata Higher Combined Arms Command School, a Navy ship, streets in Moscow, Donetsk, Slavyansk, Kharkov, Cherkassy, Kropyvnytsky were named after Konev.
After himself, I.S. Konev left memoirs: "Forty-fifth" and "Notes of the front commander."

AWARDS OF MARSHAL I.S. KONEV

ORDERS AND MEDALS OF THE USSR FOREIGN AWARDS

Order of the Red Star - 08/16/1936
Order of the Red Banner - 02/22/1938
Order of Kutuzov, 1st class - 04/09/1943
Order of Kutuzov, 1st class - 07/28/1943
Order of Suvorov, 1st class - 27.08.1943
Order of Suvorov, 1st class - 05/17/1944
He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal - 07/29/1944
Order of the Red Banner - 03 11.1944
Order of Lenin - 02/21/1945
Order "Victory" - 03/30/1945
He was awarded the second medal "Gold Star" - 06/01/1945.
Order of Lenin - 12/27/1947
Order of the Red Banner - 06/20/1949
Order of Lenin - 12/18/1956
Order of Lenin - 12/27/1957
Order of Lenin - 12/27/1967
Order of the October Revolution - 22.02. 1968
Order of Lenin - 28.12.1972
Medal "XX years of the Red Army" - 22.02. 1938
Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" - 05/01/1944
Medal "For the victory over Germany" - 09.05. 1945
Medal "For the Capture of Berlin" - 06/09/1945
Medal "For the Liberation of Prague" - 06/09/1945
Medal "In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow" - 09/21/1947
Medal "XXX Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" - 22.02.1948
Medal "40 Years of the Armed USSR" - February 17, 1958
Medal "XX Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War" - 1965
Jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" - 1968
Medal "For Military Valor" - 04/11/1970

FOREIGN AWARDS

Star and badge of the Virtuti Military Order, 1st class. - Poland
Star and badge of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland, 1st class. - Poland
Star and Badge of the Order of the Bath - Great Britain
"Cross of Grunwald" І class. - Poland
Order "Partisan Star" 1st class - SFRY
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd class - GDR
"Gold Star" of the Hero of the MPR - MPR
Order of Sukhbaatar (1961) - Mongolian People's Republic
Order of Sukhbaatar (1971) - Mongolian People's Republic
Order of the Red Banner of War - Mongolian People's Republic
French Order of the Legion of Honor 2 class. - France
Military Cross - France
Order "Legion of Honor" degree Commander - USA
Order "People's Republic of Bulgaria" 1st class - NRB
"Golden Star" of the Hero of Czechoslovakia - Czechoslovakia
Order of "Klement Gottwald" - Czechoslovakia
Star and badge of the Order of the White Lion, 1st class. - Czechoslovakia
Order of the White Lion "For Victory" 1st class - Czechoslovakia
Military Cross 1939 - Czechoslovakia
Order "Hungarian Freedom" 1st class - Hungary
Order of the Hungarian People's Republic - Hungary
Medal "Sino-Soviet Friendship" - PRC

Additional bronze plaques will be installed on the Prague monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev with information about the biography of the Soviet military leader, who took part not only in the liberation of Europe and Prague from the Nazis, but also in the suppression of the Hungarian revolution and intelligence activities before the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. The decision was made by the administration of the Prague-6 metropolitan area. The Czech communists categorically oppose the appearance of information plates.

To remember

Headman of Prague-6 district Ondrej Kolář

The decision to install three boards on the monument to the Soviet commander - in Czech, Russian and English - was made by the administration of the sixth Prague region on the eve of the 120th anniversary of the birth of the marshal, who was born on December 19 (28), 1897.

The plans of the municipality do not like the representatives of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic and Moravia.

“If we conducted an “audit” of the biographies of all those people who have monuments erected in Prague, we would learn a lot of interesting facts about them. However, no one wants to do this, and this idea concerns only one single monument. The initiative comes from former members of the TOR-09 party, who are now supported by another right-wing party - the Civic Democrats.

Bronze Konev will remain in place

I never wanted to remove the monument to Marshal Konev. If this had to be done, then no later than 1990, when revolutionary moods were strong in society. It was then that the monument to Lenin was removed from Victory Square (Vítězné nám.). The monuments to Konev and Lenin stood almost nearby - the Interbrigade Square is located a kilometer from Victory Square.

However, I believe that the person to whom this monument was erected, whether we like it or not, is an inseparable part of Czech history. He commanded the 1st Ukrainian Front, parts of which took part in the liberation of the Czechoslovak Republic, or rather the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Nobody can take that away, it happened, it's a given. That is why I said that this monument should remain here, however…. Since the monument sins with historical inaccuracy - it states that "Marshal Konev saved Prague from destruction" - we must supplement the monument with information boards on which historical facts will be given, allowing passers-by to independently draw conclusions about who Marshal Konev really was . It is necessary that people know about all the interweaving of historical events in the 20th century, when in the blink of an eye the allies became enemies, and the liberators became occupiers, and other similar historical contradictions that also took place”,- the headman of the Prague-6 district, Ondřej Kolář, is sure.

Or pay attention to Masaryk - the first Czechoslovak President and Supreme Commander. Under him, they shot at people who were on strike, wanting a better life, because they had no work. The gendarmes also shot at children. However, you will not find an additional information board anywhere on the monuments to Churchill or Masaryk.

Let's go back to the mayor of Prague-6 Ondrej Kolář. Were there ever plans to remove the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev?

“To answer this question, I need to delve deeper into history. In 1992 or 1993, the District Cultural Commission discussed a similar topic, as we do today. They pondered the further fate of the monument - to remove or leave in place? A group of historians and other specialists was formed by the deputy headman, Mrs. Frankenberg, who were to discuss everything. The answer was unequivocal - the monument should be preserved, but the inscription on it should be changed, since the current text does not correspond to reality. The implementation of the plan, however, was delayed for some time, although a text had already been developed for discussion in the district council.

Again, the monument to Marshal Konev was discussed in 2009-10, when plans were ready for the general reconstruction of the International Brigade Square. There should have been underground garages. Changes were to be made to the monument as well. It was supposed to become less pompous, the pedestal was to be reduced, and the entire monument was supposed to be moved a little further from Yugoslav Partisan Avenue.

According to the mayor of the sixth district of Prague, Ondřej Kolář, the Russian diplomatic mission, by the time the interview was recorded, had not responded to the mentioned letter.

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My opinion on this issue is quite clear: the monument to the Soviet punisher has nothing to do in the center of the capital of the country, which he occupied in 1968. Participation in the suppression of the Hungarian national uprising of 1956 and the Czech national uprising of 1968 outweighs all other pages and details of his biography. At this place, a monument to the soldiers of the 1st division of the ROA, who saved Prague from destruction, and thousands of Praguers from death, would have looked much better. The best way out of the situation would be to hold a city referendum on this issue, and my intuition tells me that the majority of Praguers would prefer to demolish the red idol from the square of their city.

The liberators of Prague from the 1st division of the ROA (AF KONR). In a helmet with a bandage on his sleeve, there is a guide from the Czech partisans