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...good humor won him attention, but he fired thousands of party secretaries and workers, cracked down ruthlessly on resisting collective farmers. He had an easy audacity about him. During World War II, Stalin gave him the rank of lieutenant general, and he went to work with General (now Marshal) Konev on the Ukrainian front. Professional Soldier Konev masterminded the military strategy; Nikita Khrushchev took care of the politics...
Lessons from a Robot. Clark went to Asia after two years as U.S. High Commissioner in Austria, where he got an on-the-scene grounding in fundamental Communist mentality and method. His Russian opposite number in Vienna was Marshal Konev, a pleasant enough fellow at a diplomatic reception. But "Konev, the social companion, and Konev, the servant of world revolution, were two different beings . . . He was a mental robot saying only what had been written for him, as though his tongue moved only when wound by a key in the Kremlin." So, in Korea, it came as no surprise...
...court that found Beria guilty was headed by a Red army general, Marshal Ivan S. Konev. This led to a rush of speculation that Dictator Malenkov had called in the army to break Beria's secret police and that the generals and marshals henceforth must be regarded as the chief power behind the throne in Moscow. Eight Red army men also sat on the supreme court bench that tried Marshal Tukhachevsky and half a dozen other high-ranking officers in the purge...
...criminals sought first and foremost to undermine the health of Soviet military leaders, to put them out of commission and weaken the country's defenses . . . But their arrest upset their fiendish plans." Among other intended victims, according to Moscow: Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, Minister of War; Marshal Ivan Konev, commander of Soviet army ground forces; Admiral Gordei Levchenko, Deputy Minister of the Navy; and General Sergei Shtemenko, chief of army staff...
...West Germans that they would be better off united with their Eastern brothers. Communist agents whisper into the eager ear of discontent: "Just wait until we come." A heavy rattling of the Russian saber last week reinforced that whisper. Moscow, it was reported, was sending Marshal Ivan S. Konev, one of Russia's top military men, to head its Eastern zone army...