Background
GEKKER, Anatoliy was born on August 25, 1888 in Tiflis. Son of a surgeon in the Caucasian Army.
GEKKER, Anatoliy was born on August 25, 1888 in Tiflis. Son of a surgeon in the Caucasian Army.
1909 graduate Vladimir Military College in St. Petersburg. 1917 graduate courses at General Staff Academy.
From 1907 in Russian army. Veteran of World War 1. After October 1917 Revol elected chief of staff, 33rd Infantry Corps, later 8th Army.
Commander, 8th Army; from 1918 in Red Army. 1918-1919 commander, Donets Workers’ Army. Chief of staff, General Command of Soviet Ukraine troops.
Comissar, White Sea Military district. Commander, Vologda rear area, Kotlas district, then Astrakhan’ fortified distr. 1919 commander, 13th Army.
1920 chief of staff, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Internal Security Troops. 1920-1921 commander, 11th Army, then Separate Caucasian Army. 1922 assistant commandant, Red Army Military Academy.
From 1922 military attache in China. From 1929 military and dipl work in Turkey. 1934-1937 head, Department of Foreign Relations, Red Army General Staff.
1918 helped crush anti-Soviet mutiny in Yaroslavl’. 1921 directed military occupation of Geo. Crushed anti-Soviet revolt in Arm.
1937 arrested by People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
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 Party member from 1917.