Background
Voroshilov, Kliment was born on February 4, 1881 in the village of Verkhnee, now Voroshilovgrad Oblast’. Son of a railway worker.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CK18TO/?tag=2022091-20
Voroshilov, Kliment was born on February 4, 1881 in the village of Verkhnee, now Voroshilovgrad Oblast’. Son of a railway worker.
Worked in metallurgical works and in repair shops in Southern Russia in 1968. Bolshevik from 1903. Chairman of Lugansk Soviet during the 1905 Revolution. Several times arrested and exiled, but managed to escape.
Carried out underground party work during 1908-1917. Chairman of Lugansk Soviet, and revolutionary city mayor of Lugansk after the October Revolution 1917. City Commissar in Petrograd, November 1917.
One of the organizers of the Red Army in the South, commander at Tsaritsyn (against General Wrangel). Minister of the Interior in the Ukraine, organizer of the 1st Cavalry Army (with Marshal Budennyi). Crushed the Kronstadt sailors’ revolt in 1921-1924.
Commander of the Moscow military district, 1924-1925. Minister of Army and Navy, chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, 1925 -34. Allied with Stalin (a close friend since the Civil War) against the Red Army chief organizer Trotsky.
People’s Commissar of Defence, 193440. Main ally of Stalin during the purge of his fellow top military commanders in 1936-1938. At the beginning of World War II, Deputy Prime Minister, chairman of the Committee for the Defence of the Fatherland, Commander of the South-West Army Group, Commander of the Leningrad front.
Chief commander of the partisan movement (controlled by the NKVD). Participated in the Tehran conference between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt in 1943. After World War II, head of the Allied Control Commission of Hungary.
Deputy Prime Minister from 1946 until Stalin’s death in March 1953. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (nominal Head of State) from 1953 to 1960. A veteran member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1921 till 1961, and member of the Politburo from 1926 till 1952.
Forced to retire in 1960 by Khruschev, officially on the grounds of ill health, in fact a victim of the power struggle within the party.
No religious basis is needed in order to display ethical behavior.
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.
