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Joseph Visarionovic Stalin , in history, Stalin is a loyal leader , a politician who inspires labor, and a great man who has made contributions, but in real life he is not a good father.
Even if there are so many cold and bitterness, they can still overcome all obstacles and be invincible. Throughout history, from ancient times to the present, at home and abroad, there are many people who have national justice. They either put national interests first or keep the national justice in mind, and keep the concept of sacrificing themselves for others and giving up their families for the sake of the whole family in their hearts.
During the outbreak of Soviet-German War , Stalin's eldest son disappeared and became a prisoner of the German army. Why not only did he not go to rescue his son, but instead shot his aunt and arrested his daughter-in-law?
Together, let’s reveal the historical truth behind this and walk into those little-known stories of Stalin.
Participated in the Revolution (Stalin's early displaced life)
According to verification, Stalin was born on December 21, 1879 in an ancient town in Georgia. He was born in a humble background, his father was a shoemaker, and his mother was the daughter of a former serf.
Stalin rarely mentioned his father in public, but he also said that as an ordinary shoemaker, his father was not a real proletarian because he had petty bourgeois thoughts.
When Stalin was ten years old, he almost took a break from seminary because of poverty and was sent to a shoe factory to learn craftsmanship by his father, but under his mother's strong opposition, he remained in the school. When Stalin was sixteen, Stalin successfully entered an Orthodox middle school in Tbilisi. He received some scholarships for his outstanding grades.
During this period, he was exposed to some revolutionary books, which sowed the seeds of revolutionary for him in the later period.
1898, Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party after hesitation. After that, he gave up the exam because he was unable to pay the sudden surge in tuition fees and had to accept the result of being expelled from the school.
After leaving school, he came to work in the meteorological observatory in Tbilisi. He was still actively involved in revolutionary activities after work. Due to his outstanding and outstanding performance, he met the idol in the hearts of the masses at that time - Lenin .
In the summer of 1906, Stalin married his wife Katerina Swaniser . Shortly after the marriage, his wife gave birth to his first son - Yakov Jugashvili .
In order to participate in the revolution, Stalin brought his wife who had just given birth to a child to Baku . On the way, Swanize unfortunately suffered from typhus and died. Before he could pass away from his widowed grief, Stalin was exiled by the Tsar. Therefore, Yakov , who was less than one year old, spent his entire childhood with his uncle and aunt.
921, Yakov finally returned to his father. Because Stalin was constantly looking for opportunities to climb up during the more than ten years of exile and hiding in Tibet, Huang Tian finally paid off on his heart. He entered the Kremlin and was in a high position, so he took his son back to live with him.
But at that time, Yakov was already fifteen years old. Due to the separation of father and son for many years, the relationship between Yakov and Stalin was not harmonious with , so it laid the foreshadowing for what happened later.
The beginning of the war (a son different from what Stalin thought)
On July 10, 1941, Germany officially began to invade Smolensk in the Soviet Union. Here, Soviet and Germany launched a tug-of-war for a long time. As the two armies continued to carry out offensive and defensive battles, the war was extremely fierce.
If the German army wants to enter and occupy Moscow, then Smolensk is an important road for the German army to enter Moscow.
If this city cannot be captured, there will be no hope of attacking Moscow. In order to defend the national territory, the Soviet Union must send heavy troops to fight.
Although the Soviet Union blocked the German offensive in this war, it also paid a very painful price for it.
In addition to the direct casualties in the war, there were more than 400,000 Soviet soldiers who became German prisoners . Among these Soviet prisoners, one of them had an identity but was particularly eye-catching. He was Yakov, the son of Stalin, the supreme commander of the Soviet Union.
July 16, 1941 Battle of Smolensk , German Wehrmacht captured a Soviet captive that surprised everyone, Stalin's eldest son Yakov Jugashvili.
In the late period of the war, the Germans proposed to exchange Yakov for the captured German marshal Paulus, but Stalin refused directly. He said: Think about how many sons of the prisoners of war were killed in the prisoners' concentration camp, but who would use them for Paulus? Are they worse than my son Yakov? " From this we can see that Yakov is an incompetent person in Stalin's heart.
Why did Stalin have such a bad comment on his eldest son?
Yakov was born in Georgia in 1907 and was born to Stalin and his first wife. Yakov's mother unfortunately died of illness just a few months after he was born. He was raised by his aunt and uncle.
Therefore, Sri Lanka was exiled in prison and exiled more than ten years ago. Dalin only met his son a few times. When he grew up, Yakov was sent to Moscow to meet his father. because he lacked the care of his parents, he was shy and quiet, and he couldn't even speak Russian, so Stalin never liked his so-called eldest son.
In addition to the originally unharmonious father-son relationship, the reason why Stalin was unwilling to rescue and exchange for his son was also an order he issued before.
"As a brave Soviet soldier, I do not allow any soldiers to surrender! "So because of this sentence, it can be seen that Yakov was captured not sad but a shame.
But is this true? Is Yakov really as cowardly and useless as Stalin thought? And is Stalin really cold-blooded and ruthless?
is obviously not. According to Yakov's former comrades-in-arms, Yakov's performance in the battle was not cowardly, on the contrary, he was very brave. It was precisely because he felt that he was Stalin's son, so he could not retreat at any time.
Although he felt scared when he first went to the battlefield, he had his own unique pride. Even if he was threatened by the German army, he did not let go and leak any confidential content.
k The cunning people always have more despicable means. The German commander deliberately drank with Yakov at the same table and then asked someone to take photos to spread rumors in the Soviet Union, proclaiming that Yakov had betrayed the Soviet Union.
This way, one can hit the morale of the Soviet Union, and the other can push Stalin and Yakov to the forefront, making them have to compromise under the pressure of public opinion.
How could Stalin not understand this way of killing two birds with one stone? But even if he could see through the trap, the Soviet soldiers and the people of the United States had already chosen to believe this ridiculous rumor, so Stalin was even more powerful and unable to do so in the rescue of his son.
Don’t forget that Stalin once said: “Being captured is a shame for the soldiers, and even a shame for the family.
So most Soviet soldiers would rather be killed by the enemy on the battlefield than be captured by the enemy, because once captured, they will not only be physically destroyed by the enemy, but also not be respected by others.
” This sentence summarizes Yakov’s later experiences. He did not die under the gun of a German soldier but died in deep doubts about himself.
After the plan failed,
Yakov was forced to be sent to a villa located in Berlin and was imprisoned. After learning about Yakov's special identity, Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels hoped that he could participate in Russian radio broadcasts with persuasion to surrender, in an attempt to shake the morale of the Soviet Union. The situation went against his wishes. Yakov directly rejected without thinking. So, Yakov, who lost his usefulness, was finally locked up in the once infamous prison - Saxonyhausen concentration camp .
1943 Late at night on April 14, 1943, Yakov's body was cruelly hung on the barbed wire mesh, and the cause of death was unknown. One statement that Stalin learned was shooting, and another statement was planning to commit suicide.
After the war, British intelligence agencies found records of Germans killing prisoners of war in the archives of the Saxony Hausen concentration camp. It turned out that night that Yakov had a verbal dispute with some British prisoners of war in the same prison, and he lost control of his emotions. He turned around and ran into the live wire fence of the camp and the guard who was unknown to the truth shot in the chaos.
The real event shows that he had died of high voltage shock before being shot, and his body was finally burned in the crematorium in the camp.
For Yakov, the shame of being captured, his father's misunderstanding, deals with photos and recordings from Berlin every day, and always deals with the ridicule of soldiers from other countries. He has already destroyed the last will and faith in the despair and sadness day after day.
It can be said that every day Yakov lived, both physically and mentally, he suffered tremendous torture, and he wandered on the verge of collapse every day. Perhaps what happened that night made him completely give up and chose such an ending, but this happened to correspond to what Stalin said above.
In the end, he chose to commit suicide and was understandable. It was just that he could never wash away the stereotype in his father's heart , but what he didn't know was that after his death, even if his father looked down on him, could believe in Stalin's heart that his son would never betray the country.
From this we can also see how profound the sentence "Prisons of war are traitors of the motherland" has had on him.
So the incident of Yakov being captured by the German army and died in a German concentration camp was a pain that Stalin could never erase. Why did Stalin shoot his aunt Guan Yuyakov's wife afterwards? The choice between a supreme leader and his father (the masses are far more important than personal gains and losses in the face of national justice)
It can be said that Stalin loved his first wife, Ekaterina Swanize, very much, but his wife's sudden death hit Stalin, who had just fallen in love, and also had a great impact on his character later.
Because of the sorrow of Stalin's original family, he was a cruel person, and his heart was even cold and hard as iron. However, Swanize's appearance made his iron heart feel the rare warmth, so his first wife also took away his already rare tenderness.
Therefore, I never seriously care about my son.
1925, no one knew that Yakov actually got married secretly. The other party was the daughter of an Orthodox priest. His move was strongly opposed by Stalin. As a result, Yakov was depressed and picked up a pistol and prepared to commit suicide. However, because he did not hit the center, he was lucky to be rescued.
Ko Stalin scoffed at his behavior, and he sarcastically said, "He wanted to commit suicide but couldn't even shoot a gun." Yakov's second wife was a Jewish ballerina, and her identity was also coldly accepted by Stalin. After Yakov was captured, Stalin immediately ordered her to be imprisoned and shot Yakov's uncle and aunt as soon as possible.
Why did Stalin do this?
It turned out that during the war, tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers including Yakov were captured by the German army, and the emergence of letters of large-scale surrender made the Soviet army sluggish. In order to change this situation, Stalin issued a series of policies, "Being captured by the German army, all those who surrendered and their families were implicated, they were punished for treason."
Facing a crisis, Stalin could only set an example and convicted his uncle and aunt who raised Yakov for the same crime as traitors, and executed a gun in the army. At the same time, his daughter-in-law Yulia was arrested and imprisoned.
With the implementation of a series of cruel policies in Stalin, the morale of the Soviet army quickly stabilized, and the effect was immediately effective. Soviet soldiers witnessed Stalin's justice and destroyed their relatives for justice. The unity and faith of the army also increased rapidly, which laid the groundwork for the Soviet Union to win the victory of World War II . At the same time, the great victory achieved by the Soviet army in the defense of Moscow greatly encouraged the confidence of the Soviet Union and the people of the world to defeat fascist .
In fact, in addition to implementing the policy as soon as possible, the three people of are indeed suspected of colluding with enemies and treason. As early as 1937, Yakov's uncle was arrested by the military for participating in the anti-Soviet alliance, so his aunt, naturally could not escape the investigation. In addition, the news of Yakov's treason at that time had had a great impact on society.
As the aunt who raised Yakov for more than ten years, Stalin sent her on the way with the principle of " Love House and Wu ". However, Stalin arrested his daughter-in-law because he suspected his daughter-in-law Metzel and leaked the rescue plan to Germany.
In fact, after learning that his eldest son Yakov was captured, Stalin had secretly arranged a rescue plan. He had sent secret personnel to rescue him, but before they arrived, God was transferred in advance without knowing it.
So a senior officer suspected that there was an German spy at the headquarters, and he notified the German side of the rescue operation in advance. After learning the news, Stalin detained his daughter-in-law.
The external reason is that she suspected that she contacted Germany privately and revealed her plan to rescue Yakov. In the end, Yakov's wife Metzel was imprisoned for this false guilt. (The real reason for the failure to rescue is that the Poles in prison carried out an escape operation, and Yakov happened to be among them.)
Yakov's sacrifice, the execution of his aunt and the arrest of his daughter-in-law are enough to show that Stalin always treats people's lives from a political perspective, reflecting the viciousness and sharp means of the politician Stalin.
However, while he was constantly gaining power, he lost family affection. But for Stalin, his goal was to achieve it. The Soviet Union won. The Soviet Union became the only overlord who could compete with the superpower United States at that time.
Son is a relative of flesh and blood, and his family is even more of a close relative of blood. Stalin executed them, and he was also sad, but the son and the country, in the face of personal interests and national interests, was very clear that he had already made choices with his practical actions, killing his aunt who raised his son, and arresting his daughter-in-law who passed on his family for himself. All of this was for the rise of the Soviet Union, the self who sacrificed for the morale of the army and the situation of the war at that time.
If you don’t want to be a sinner of history, you can only be a ruthless "killer" to cover up your emotions and command everything calmly. He will neither panic because of failure nor be intoxicated by victory.
summary
Stalin is a cold-blooded person. He can use the lives of innocent people as bargaining chips for exchange and can judge a person's guilt decisively and decisively, but don't forget that the premise of being a father is the supreme leader of the country.
He could develop the Soviet Union into an industrial and military power in ten years. It was through this highly concentrated and extreme method that the Soviet Union became one of the industrialized powers. The Stalin model was undoubtedly successful in the social context at that time.
Stalin, he was an outstanding leader, he won the respect of people living in cruel times, he had an extremely powerful force, the eagle should have soared in the sky, but he sacrificed everything he had to the Soviet Union.
Stalin, he was also a failed father. He lost all the warmth that was not much in social and family life, and personally made his home full of devastated hands. Therefore, he could undoubtedly be described in front of the so-called relatives as cold-blooded and ruthless.
I don’t know what I will feel when Stalin, who is in his twilight years, recalls his life. Will this warrior in the past miss or expects family affection like an ordinary old man.
What exactly is chosen? Should I choose to wish I could not forget the past or choose to be distracted and bury my memories.
However, this poor old man never really knew his son in his life. Later, after finding out the truth, Yakov was posthumously awarded the first-class Medal of Defense by the Soviet Union and took back his files.
Since ancient times, it has been difficult to achieve both family and country, and Stalin only chose the one he thought was the most correct and perfect. What do you think?
