Poor Konev, He gets stuck in Czechoslovakia where there was little fame while Zhukov, Rokossovsky or both were making the headlines as they pushed into Berlin

MajorAmiruddin said:

Poor Konev, He gets stuck in Czechoslovakia where there little fame while Zhukov, Rokossovsky or both were making the headlines as they pushed into Berlin

Wait, didn't he move into Germany just to be the link-up for the West instead of being with the generals who were at Berlin celebrating?

ezekill said:

Wait, didn't he move into Germany just to be the link-up for the West instead of being with the generals who were at Berlin celebrating?

Хуита, у него просто был приказ от дяди Ёси. За уклонения у нас часто угощали автоматными очередями.

Nonsense, he had just a order from uncle Iosif. There are the string of bursts out of deviations by us.

BelchingSpitfire said:

Poor Konev, He gets stuck in Czechoslovakia where there was little fame while Zhukov, Rokossovsky or both were making the headlines as they pushed into Berlin

Nah, actually, Stalin appointed him to assist Zhukov when attacking Berlin. There is a fun fact that Stalin threatened Zhukov to replace him with Konev when Stalin saw Zhukov's divisions attacked slowly. And what happened next is history