Joined the Bolshevik Party, 1918,and the Red Army, 1919. Took part in the Civil War. Political officer in naval border-guard forces.
Head of the political department of the Soviet Navy, and Deputy Minister of the Navy, 1939. Member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, 1939-1949. Took part in World War II in the Black Sea.
Religious leaders contribute to secular and religious wars by endorsing or supporting the violence.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.