Whose mistakes do you have to pay for? Born on March 21, 1921 and died on March 19, 1962, just 2 days short of turning 41. He is a person that historical researchers seem to be confused about and don’t know how to evaluate. Which is right.
A life with so many scandals, in addition to the father’s famous twentieth century name… However, the story of his fate and life still continues arousing the attention of many people.
The youngest son
The The surname “Stalin” in different periods evoked opposite emotions in the Soviet people – fear, respect, hatred and appreciation. All these feelings were for just one person The only one with the surname Stalin – That is Ioseph Vissarionovich Stalin – Leader of the Soviet Union (For readers to easily distinguish, we call him Stalin father- ND).
The son The second son Vasily Stalin always lived in the shadow of his father. Sometimes he told his closest friends: “I can only live while my father is alive.” And everything was exactly as he had a premonition – after the death of his father, his life went downhill.
Vasily Stalin was born into a family where his father was a Soviet leader and his mother was a Soviet leader. Mrs. Nadezhda Allilueva- the second wife of Stalin’s father.
People who knew the Stalin family in the 1920s said they lived very happily. In 1926 Vasily’s younger sister Svetlana was born. In addition to their two biological children, the family also adopted Artem Sergeev – the son of revolutionary Fyodor Sergeyev whose alias in the party was “Artem” who died. Artem Sergeev became the adopted son of Stalin’s father.
According to Artem Sergeev’s recollections, Stalin’s father always paid attention to spending time with his children and family. He loved his daughter Svetlana very much, but his two sons were equally concerned.
Children of the Kremlin security team
On November 9, 1932, Mrs. Nadezhda Allilueva suddenly committed suicide, turning everything in her family upside down This god I.V. Stalin buried himself in the work of the children in the house and had to rely on servants and guards to look after him.
This way of education had a bad influence on the naughty and filial boy He really needed a father by his side because for Vasily, his father was the most prestigious person.
Later, when he grew up, Vasily Stalin wrote: “When I was a child, I lived without my father’s love. mother and not regularly cared for by father. I actually grew up and received education from men (guard soldiers), so there’s nothing special about my morals and I don’t know how to behave properly. This left a mark throughout my later life and influenced my personality. I soon started smoking and drinking.”
Stalin’s children studied at Moscow High School № 25 along with the children of other Soviet leaders. Vasily does not study well and is often disruptive, but he is very kind, easy to sympathize with, considerate, and always ready to help others.
The guard general of I.V. Nikolai Vlasic and his subordinates took care of the supervision of Vasily. Vlasic regularly reported to his father Stalin about his son’s academic results and followed his instructions. The leader asked everyone not to be gentle with Vasily and to closely monitor his studies. Father and son mostly communicated through letters.
Just wished to fly in the sky
Vasily soon realized that the name “Stalin” had magical effects and How he influenced people so he tried to take advantage of that. Everyone is always ready to satisfy the wishes of the leader’s son, but if unfortunately the father finds out, not only Vasily will be scolded, but also those who pamper the cunning boy will be punished.
After graduating from high school, Vasily and Artem Sergeev – both foster brother and close friend – planned to enter artillery school. But then he changed his mind and decided to study as a pilot, the most fashionable profession at that time.
Vasily Stalin wanted to study at the Aviation School Military Famous Kachin in Crimea. But his transcript did not meet the requirements for admission to the school. In the end, people paid attention to this case.
The new student immediately demonstrated his ability to transform. Hinting that his father would soon visit Crimea, Vasily immediately found a private room and organized a royal life there.
The story reached the ears of Stalin’s father. He immediately ordered: bring student Vasily Stalin back to live with other students in the barracks, must strictly manage and strictly implement the study program.
Removed Vasily’s special priority conditions do not make him sad. He became friends with other students in the same class and quickly became the soul of the group.
And of course, he was also the leader in the students’ mischievous antics.< /p>
About Vasily’s studies at the Air Force School, it can be said in short that he only studied poorly in theory and had great difficulty taking exams. But in return, flying practice is very good. It seems that God has given him the talent of a pilot.
After graduating from the Air Force School, young officer Vasily was assigned to the Flight Control Department of the Army Staff. Air Force of the Soviet Red Army. Vasily did not like this job and after the war broke out he insisted on going to fight on the front. In the summer of 1942, his wish was fulfilled.
At that time, children of leaders did not sit in the rear but had to fight on the front lines. Stalin’s eldest son was taken prisoner, Khrushev’s son, a military pilot, went missing, Marshal Frunze’s only son died, etc. Vasily Stalin also had no thought of hiding behind the others.< /p>
There is different information about the number of enemy aircraft shot down by fighter pilot Vasily Stalin, the number fluctuates between 2-5. Soviet Hero Sergei Dolgushin recalled: “During February-March 1943, our unit shot down 10 enemy aircraft. Vasily participated in shooting down 3 aircraft.
And it was necessary Note that in principle, Vasily was the first to attack, then when the enemy aircraft lost direction, we rushed in. According to Air Force regulations, these downed aircraft can be counted separately for Vasily, but he still counts it as the group’s achievement.
Once I told him but he waved his hand and threw a short sentence: “No need!”.
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At that time Vasily Stalin was the commander of Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment № 32. Veterans of this regiment still remember many years later: Vasily Stalin was a very good pilot and extremely brave.
A pilot of Regiment №32 named Fyodor Prokopenko recalled: many times during the battle regiment commander V. Stalin was busy chasing enemy aircraft, so he became a target for German planes followed. Luckily, his comrades arrived in time to rescue him.
After the war, Vasily Stalin gave Fyodor Prokopenko a photo with the inscription: “Life – is the Fatherland.” . Thank you life. I owe you my life.”
Expensive fishing game
It’s just a pity that the classy and brave pilot officer Vasily Stalin was destroyed by two things : vodka and indiscipline.
Hero of the Soviet Union Vitaliy Popkov, a talented pilot, the prototype of the character in the legendary movie “Only old men fight” remembered tells the story of how Colonel V. Stalin got into trouble. In the spring of 1943, during the break between two campaigns, Vasily Stalin invited Popkov to command the squadron to go looking for fish. This pilot did not object but said: “How to catch fish? There is no fishing rod without a net.”
Then a weapons engineer suggested using a rocket used for Il-2 aircraft to reset the timer for the explosive device to catch fish. As a result, the device exploded in his hand, causing one person to die on the spot and injure many others, including Vasily Stalin.
When this news was reported to Commander-in-Chief Stalin, he tried his best. angry because during the war his son had accidentally caused casualties to the officers through his harassment.
So Vasily was demoted and transferred to become a training pilot. assigned to a reserve Air Force regiment and forbidden to fly again.
“Enthusiastic, hot-tempered, weak mentally”
Vasily was cleared of discipline in mid-1944 was appointed commander of the 3rd Guards Fighter Air Division of the 1st Guards Army of Lieutenant General Beletsky.
At the end of the war Vasily Stalin was the commander of the Division 286th Fighter Air Group, 16th Air Force Group, Belorussian Front-1. Although there are many shortcomings and shortcomings, it can be seen that the air force and the sky are his living land. Only by living with the pilots did he feel truly happy.
In March 1946, when he was nearly 26 years old, Vasily Stalin was awarded the rank of Major General of the Air Force.
< p>His career quickly reached its peak in 1948, when Vasily Stalin was already a Lieutenant General and was appointed Commander of the Moscow Military District’s air force.
In cadre resume of pilot Vasily Stalin still records the same comments: “If you have a hot temper and weak nerves, there are cases of assault on your subordinates.”
And that’s the truth: there are also cases of insult and humiliation. Offending others, there were drunken incidents that caused a ruckus throughout Moscow.
Vasily became increasingly addicted to alcohol and this was also the cause of problems in his family life. He has four wives and four children, but none of those women can stand his bad temper or alcoholism.
Passion sports
There is also a completely different Vasily Stalin. It was he who sourced apartments for his subordinates to solve all their daily problems. It was also he who personally inspected the aircraft’s technology and decided on the issue of training young pilots. According to his initiative, a new building was built in the Central airport area for the General Staff of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District.
There is also a need to say more about the passion for sports. Vasily Stalin’s sports. He manages the Air Force Sports Club that brings together the best athletes in the country in all different disciplines. The Air Force hockey team has won the All-Soviet championship three times, and the Association’s athletes have won victories in many disciplines. The only thing that Vasily Stalin failed to achieve was not making the Air Force football team champion.
People have different opinions about Stalin’s passionate passion for sports – Some people say he always creates the most favorable conditions for athletes to buy apartments for them and pays them generous salaries. Others believe that leader Stalin’s son “robbed” other sports associations.
Thanks to Vasily Stalin, a number of sports facilities were built in Moscow. In addition, he also managed the construction of the swimming pool of the Military Sports Club, which until now still operates on Leningrad Avenue. Vasily Stalin befriended one of the legendary Soviet athletes, Vsevolod Bobrov, and Capitolina Vasilyeva, his third wife, was also a Soviet swimming champion.
“My father was murdered”
Vasily Stalin was “scandalized” again while his father was still alive. On May 1, 1952, after the parade of the air force commanded by Lieutenant General Vasily Stalin, while landing two new Il-28 jet bombers, they crashed due to low clouds.
In July 1952, the Air Force parade in Tusino took place successfully. Leader Stalin was very pleased and invited his son to attend a government reception. But that day, Vasily was able to “celebrate” his success first and came to the party drunk. Stalin father got angry and sent Vasily back and soon after he was dismissed. The official reason for this disciplinary decision is the accident that occurred on May 1.
General Vasily Stalin was sent to study at the Military Academy under the General Staff, but he did not go to class. and also have no interest in studying.
Despite having a complicated relationship with his father, Vasily Stalin loved and respected his father very much. He was very saddened by his father’s death in March 1953. He sobbed in front of his father’s coffin and repeated the phrase “They killed father!”.
In addition, in conversations with friends Vasily also threatened to reveal it to the foreign press. about all the hidden things in the lives of the people around Stalin, including the heads of state.
The prisoner “Vasily Vasilyev”
Stalin’s son became a headache for the new leaders of the Soviet Union. Soviet Defense Minister Nicolai Bulganin called him and offered to send him to one of the remote military districts where an excitable person like Vasily would pose no threat. But the stubborn general refused and on March 26, 1953 he was sent back to military service – not allowed to wear military uniform.
That was just the beginning. A month later he was arrested. Vasily was charged with slandering the country’s leaders, assault, abuse of position, and a long list of other crimes. He was detained for more than 2 years awaiting sentencing. In the end, the Court sentenced Vasily Iosifovich Stalin to 8 years in prison for “propaganda against the Soviet state and taking advantage of his position”.
But he was not sent to a camp but was detained in Vladimir Central (Prison for holding extremely dangerous criminals built in the city of Vladimir since the 18th century – ND). Here, even his full name was deprived: The prisoner’s name recorded in the file was “Vasily Pavlovich Vasilyev”.
The strange thing is that people who knew Vasily Stalin in prison all talked about him with all the good words. The wardens recalled that the leader’s son was a skilled turner and a good mechanic. Vasily worked hard and always fulfilled the norms. His relatives asked state leaders to consider releasing Vasily Stalin but to no avail.
The quiet passing of a man< /p>
It was not until January 1960 that Stalin was released and he was taken to meet Nikita Khrusev. Nikita Xergeievich said he was willing to forget the past, hoping that now Vasily had learned his lesson and would know his position more clearly.
According to the orders of Soviet Defense Minister Vasily Stalin was Restored the right to wear a military uniform, receive a pension and be given a 3-room apartment in Moscow.
At the age of 40 Vasily Stalin suffered from a series of illnesses due to his imprisonment and many years Alcoholism. He had difficulty walking but his personality remained the same. Not long after, he refused to stay silent anymore and continued to “make slanderous statements against the Soviet state”. Vasily Stalin was once again imprisoned in Lefortovo – the parole was revoked and a new sentence awaited.
In the spring of 1961 he was released but was forbidden to live in the capital or in father’s hometown in Georgia to prevent acts of rebellion. The next place of residence of the disgraced general was the city of Kazan. In January 1962, he was permanently stripped of his full name and was issued a new identity card with the name “Vasily Dzugasvili”.
March 19, 1962 Vasily Iosifovich Stalin breathed his last when he was only 2 days away from turning 41 years old. There are different versions about his funeral – some witnesses claim that only a few people attended Vasily’s funeral and others say that up to half of the population of Kazan came to mourn Vasily’s funeral. seeing off Stalin’s son to Eternity.
It was forbidden to wear military uniforms to his funeral, but a group of people approached the coffin and gently lifted the hem of their overcoat to reveal their clothes. The military uniform has medals inside. Veterans and officer-pilots said goodbye to their fighting friends like that.
But for Vasily Iosifovich Stalin, it no longer had any meaning. He finally found the peace that he never had when he was alive.
According to Nguyen Quang
Vietnamese Land
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