Background
Shlemin, Ivan was born in 1898.
Shlemin, Ivan was born in 1898.
Graduated from the Frunze Military Academy, 1925.
Took part in World War I. Joined the Red Army, 1918, and the Bolshevik Party, 1920. Took part in the Civil War. Head of the Academy of the General Staff, 1937-1940.
Commander of several armies during World War II. After the war, Chief-of-staff of Land Forces, 1948. Professor at the Academy of the General Staff, 1954-1962.
Religion divides people, and is a cause of numerous wars and conflicts throughout the human history.
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.