Background
ASKOL’DOV, Yakov was born in 1893.
ASKOL’DOV, Yakov was born in 1893.
Fought in World War 1. Sentenced to death by field court martial, 1st Army Corps for revol activities among troops. February 1917 released from Bobruysk Fortress, where he had been held in solitary confinement.
1917 member. Army Committee, 2nd Army and Front Committee. Western Front; during 1917 October Revol member, Slutsk Revol Committee and commander of a revol detachment, 2nd Army. From 1918 in Red Army.
1918-1920 military comissar, 1st Lith Rifle Division, Daugavpils Fortified Region. Military comissar, )0th Rifle Division. Alternate member, Revol-Military Soviet, 3rd Army.
Acting commander, 3rd Army. 1920-1924 dcp commander, Khar’kov Military district. Chief inspector, Siberian and Far Eastern Republic Military Training Establishments Board.
Commander and military comissar, Main Military Engineer Board. 1924 transferred from army to civilian admin work. During 1930's construction manager and director, Siberian Metal Construction Plant, Novosibirsk, and "Bolshevik” Plant, Kiev.
1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Religions encourage war and violence to promote their religious goals.
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.
Communist Party member from 1917.