Background
SHTERN, Grigoriy was born on July 24, 1900 in Smila, now Cherkassy Oblast.
SHTERN, Grigoriy was born on July 24, 1900 in Smila, now Cherkassy Oblast.
1927 graduate Frunze Military Academy.
From 1918 in Red Army. Fought in Civil War; then political work with various units. Comissar, 7th Samara Cavalry Division.
In 1930's mang, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense. Commanded cavalry div in Belorussian Military district. 1934-1937 also member.
Military Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense. 1937-1938, under the pseudonym Grigorovich, commanded all Soviet ground-force volunteers in Republic Spain. 1938 chief of staff Separate Red Banner Far Eastern Army on Far Eastern Front.
Commanded Soviet troops during Lake Khasan fighting. 1938-1940 commander, 1st Army in Far East. 1939 also commanded front group formed to direct Far Eastern troops and military action in the Khalkhin Gol area.
1939-1940 commander, 8th Army on Soviet-Finnish Front. 1940 commander, Far Eastern Front. From 1939 member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1937 convocation. Early 1941 arrested by State Security organs.
Religions encourage war and violence to promote their religious goals.
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 1919.