Background
Iakubovskii, Ivan was born on January 7, 1912.
Iakubovskii, Ivan was born on January 7, 1912.
Joined the Red Army, 1932. Took part as a tank officer in the SovietFinnish war, 1939-1940. Commander of tank detachments during World War II. After the war, commander of a tank army.
1st Deputy Commander of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1957-1960, and 1961-1962, and Commander, 1962-1965. Commander of Kiev military district, 1965. 1st Deputy Minister of Defence of the USSR, and Supreme Commander of Warsaw Pact Forces, 1967.
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.