Background
Lukin, Mikhail was born in 1892.
Lukin, Mikhail was born in 1892.
Graduated from the Frunze Military Academy, 1926.
Took part in World War I as a lieutenant. Joined the Red Army, 1918. Active in the Civil War.
Commandant of Moscow, 1935-1937. Distinguished service in the early stages of World War II. In October 1941, heavily wounded, became a prisoner of war in Germany. The German authorities intended him to take over the leadership of the anti-Stalinist Russian detachments, an offer which, according to his memoirs written after the war, he rejected as despicable, using this occasion tocondemn Vlasov, who accepted this role later, as a traitor and turncoat.
The real story of the war-time negotiations and of Lukin’s fate after World War II (in the Gulag, 1945-1955), seems to have been more complicated than his officially inspired memoirs admit.
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.