Background
Zakharov, Matvei was born in 1898.
Zakharov, Matvei was born in 1898.
Graduated from the Frunze Military Academy, 1928.
Joined the Communist Party, 1917. Took part in the storming of the Winter Palace during the October Revolution 1917. In the Red Army during the Civil War.
On active service during World War II, first against Germany, and later Japan. After World War II, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Head of the Academy of the General Staff, and Commander of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany. Chief of the General Staff, 1960-1971, and 1st Deputy Minister of Defence of the USSR.
Religious leaders contribute to secular and religious wars by endorsing or supporting the violence.
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.