Background
VATSETIS, Ioakim was born on November 23, 1873 in Kurland Province. Son of a farmhand.
VATSETIS, Ioakim was born on November 23, 1873 in Kurland Province. Son of a farmhand.
1897 graduate Vilnius Military College.
1914-1917 fought in Russian Army, where his last rank was colonel. During October 1917 Revol transferred allcgience to Red Army. January 1918 put down anti-Soviet mutiny in General Dowbor Musicki’s Polish Corps.
Spring 1918 commanded Latin Infantry Division. In same year led suppression of “Leftist” Socialist-Revol uprising in Moscow. From July 1918 commander, Eastern Front.
4 September 1918 —8 July 1919 commander in chief, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Armed Forces. August 1919—1921 worked for Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Revol Military Council. From 1922 professor, (Frunze) Military Academy.
1938 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.