Background
MATROSOV, Aleksandr was born in 1924 in Dnepropetrovsk.
MATROSOV, Aleksandr was born in 1924 in Dnepropetrovsk.
Orphaned, one of the ‘besprizornye’—those children who were victims of the chaotic revolutionary years, educated in children’s colonies under quasi-military discipline and constant ideological indoctrination. The successful survivors of this system often became janissaries of Stalinist life-style and values. Conscripted and sent to the front, 1942.
In February 1943, during a battle with the Germans in Pskov Oblast’, covered the embrasure of an enemy pillbox with his body, silencing the machine-gun and ensuring victory for his detachments. Became a Stalinist cult figure after his death.
Religion is bad because it divides people, and is a cause of conflict and war.
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.
Communist Youth League member from 1942.