Background
Iakovlev, Ivan was born in 1918.
General state security officer
Iakovlev, Ivan was born in 1918.
Graduated from the Military Academy of the Tank Forces, 1949, and from the Academy of the General Staff, 1958.
Joined the Red Army, 1939. Took part in the Soviet-Finnish war, 1939-1940. Junior commander during World War II. Chief of Military Training of the Land Forces, and Deputy Commander of the Moscow military district.
Commander of the Internal Armed Forces of the Ministry of the Interior, 1968.
Religion divides people, and is a cause of numerous wars and conflicts throughout the human history.
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.