Background
Lopatin, Aleksei was born in 1915.
lieutenant state security officer
Lopatin, Aleksei was born in 1915.
Joined the border guards (NKVD), 1937. At the start of World War II, his border-guard detachment fought to the death for 11 days against the advancing German Army. Posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, 1957.
The extremely long delay in acknowledging this heroic feat has never been explained.
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.