Background
Shtern, Grigorii was born in 1900.
Shtern, Grigorii was born in 1900.
Graduated from the Frunze Military Academy, 1929.
Regimental and brigade commissar during the Civil War. Military commander in Turkestan and Khorezm, 1923-1925. Chief military adviser with the Republicans during the Civil War in Spain, 1937-1938.
Took part in military operations against the Japanese at Khalkin-Gol, and in the SovietFinnish war, 1939-1940. Commander of the Far Eastern front, 1940-1941. Member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, 1939-1941.
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.