Background
Vasilenko, Matvei was born on November 25, 1888 in the village of Podstavka in the Ukraine.
Vasilenko, Matvei was born on November 25, 1888 in the village of Podstavka in the Ukraine.
Educated at the Tiflis Military School, 1909.
Took part in World War I (captain). During the Civil War, army commander (against the Whites at Tsaritsyn and Kuban’, against Poland, and against Armenia). In the 1930s, Infantry Inspector of the Red Army.
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.