Background
Skomorokhov, Nikolai was born in 1920.
Skomorokhov, Nikolai was born in 1920.
Educated at a pilots’ school, 1942. Graduated from the Frunze Military Academy, 1949, and from the Academy of the General Staff, 1958.
Joined the Red Army, 1940. Fighter pilot during World War II, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1943.
Credited with shooting down 46 enemy planes. High command posts in the Soviet Air Force after World War II. Head of the Air Force Academy, 1973.
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.
