Background
Lapchinskii, Aleksandr was born in 1882 in near Tver.
Lapchinskii, Aleksandr was born in 1882 in near Tver.
Educated at Alekseevskoe Military School, studied at Moscow and Munich universities before World War I.
Pilot, air force lieutenant during World War I. Joined the Red Army, 1918. Chief of Staff of the Red Air Force. After 1925, taught at the Frunze Military Academy and the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy.
Stressed the necessity of air superiority in modern warfare. Theoretician of mass bombing.
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.