Background
Gamarnik, Ian was born on June 2, 1884 in Zhitomir.
Gamarnik, Ian was born on June 2, 1884 in Zhitomir.
Studied law at Kiev University. Studied law at Kiev University.
Involved in revolutionary activity from 1913. During the Civil War, organizer of the Communist underground in the Ukraine, later a high-ranking political commissar in the Red Army. After the Civil War, had several party posts in the Ukraine and the Far East, 1920-1928.
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party in Belorussia, 1928. Head of the political administration of the Red Army and editor of the military newspaper Krasnaia Zvezda from October 1929. Deputy Minister of Defence, Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, June 1930.
Caught up in the Stalinist purge of the Red Army along with Marshal Tukhachevskii and other military leaders. Committed suicide (shot himself) in Moscow while awaiting arrest.
Religion is an instrument of the ruling classes to instill in the masses the religious conviction that their current suffering will lead to eventual happiness.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the guiding force of all socialist countries, and the nucleus of their political system.