Background
Shilin, Afanasii was born in 1924.
Shilin, Afanasii was born in 1924.
Graduated from the Dzerzhinskii Artillery Academy, 1952, and from the Academy of the General Staff, 1966.
Joined the Red Army, 1942. Artillery officer, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, during World War II. After World War II, held several high posts in the Soviet artillery. Deputy chairman of DOSAAF, 1976.
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.