Background
Ignat'ev, Aleksei Alekseevich, Count was born in 1877.
Ignat'ev, Aleksei Alekseevich, Count was born in 1877.
Graduated from the Academy of the General Staff, 1902.
Russian Military Attache in Scandinavia, 1908-1912, and France, 1912-1917. After the October Revolution, joined the Red Army, and became one of the bestknown aristocrats on the side of the communists. Wrote memoirs about his career under the Tsar, Lenin, Trotsky, and finally Stalin (50 Let v Stroiu).
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.