The western world often referred to Stalin as the "Red Tsar", while the Soviets secretly called him the "God on earth."
"God on earth" is really appropriate. At the peak of his power, Joseph Stalin ruled nearly 200 million Soviet citizens and nearly one-sixth of the earth’s surface, dominating him under his rule. The power of life and death for everyone, including the senior cadres at that time.
Such "human gods" have overshadowed many people in his life-including his second son and Vasily Stalin .
In 1930, Vasily and his father Stalin
As the son of God, Vasily’s life can be described as ups and downs: he joined the air force at the age of 19 and was promoted to lieutenant general at the age of 24. His promotion was fast in the Soviet Union It is unprecedented in the army.
With the sudden death of Stalin in 1953, Vasily was demoted immediately. He was first completely expelled from the military and sentenced to jail. He was only 40 years old when he died.
Father does not hurt, mother does not love
When Vasily was born on March 21, 1921, his father was also a subordinate of Vladimir Lenin, the first Soviet leader.
His mother Nadezhda Aliluyeva was Stalin's second wife. Stalin and his first wife also had a son named Yakov.
The age difference between Stalin and Vasily’s mother is 23 years. When the two met for the first time, Stalin was wanted for engaging in revolutionary activities, and Aliluyeva was a little girl, and her father provided cover for Stalin.
Day and long love. In 1919, 41-year-old Stalin and 18-year-old Aliluyeva married.
Aliluyeva, the mother of Stalin and Vasily
Even though Aliluyeva is young, but her mind actively demands progress. As a loyal Communist Party member, Aliluyeva initially served as Lenin's secretary.
But the machismo Stalin made it clear that he hoped that his young wife would stay at home to take care of her young son Vasily, and Aliluyeva, who was also very strong, hated this, and her temperament became melancholy and irritable.
A few months after Vasily was born, in order to let his wife take care of the family, Stalin even expelled his wife from the party.
But Aliluyeva has become more and more frustrated. She thought the same way as other revolutionary women with veteran qualifications. How could it be called a revolution if she took care of children and dealt with diapers all day? How can we reflect our own value? Moving towards a career and becoming an independent woman was a big event for any woman in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
Therefore, despite Stalin's objections, Aliluyeva hired a nanny to take care of Vasily and his sister Svetlana.
Amid the deliberate estrangement of his mother and his father's ambitions, Vasily received almost no attention from anyone in his childhood, except for the nanny and guards around him.
The more no one pays attention, the more pathologically he seeks attention. As a child, Vasily began to deliberately sabotage, either by uprooting the flowers and plants that the adults had so hard to plant, or snatching the toys from the sister, making her squeak Barking.
Stalin and his daughter. Stalin never concealed that his daughter was his favorite, and he often mocked and belittled his sons.
However,Unexpected is still coming.
In 1932, at a dinner celebrating the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution , Vasily’s parents were at a loss. Stalin, who had drunk too much, yelled at his wife and scolded her, Aliluyeva Angrily left. A few hours later, Aliluyeva was found shot and killed. She was only 30 years old.
However, Vasily and his sister didn't know the truth about their mother's death until 10 years later, and their father kept deliberately concealing it. The official statement at the time was that she died suddenly of acute appendicitis. In fact, Aliluyeva shot herself.
Vasily and his mother
began to drink alcohol
Although the mother was busy with her revolutionary cause during her lifetime and did not have time to accompany Vasily, the mother is still alive. For young children, It was a great psychological comfort; but now the mother is gone, and the last straw in Vasily's heart is gone, which completely destroyed the young Vasily.
He became more rebellious and violent. The point is that no one of the nanny and guards around him dared to correct him, and he became unscrupulous.
When he was 13 years old, Vasily started drinking heavily.
In 1930, Vasily and his sister Svetlana took a photo with his father
Since his wife passed away, Stalin no longer visited his children often. Only the nanny and the guards of Stalin's guard class are responsible for taking care of Vasily and his sister .
Vasily always wanted to get his father’s attention,At first, he often wrote to his father to report his current situation to him, but his hard-hearted father never wrote back.
Become an Air Force pilot
In 1938, Vasily’s school days were coming to an end. He originally wanted to be an artilleryman, but because his half-brother Yakov had already entered the artillery academy, his father thought His two sons should not learn the same unit. In this way, 17-year-old Vasily was sent to the Kachinsk Military Aviation School to study and became a pilot of the Soviet Air Force after graduation.
While studying in the aviation school, although his father ordered the school not to let him enjoy privileges just because he was the son of Stalin, he was the son of the commander-in-chief after all. He was the prince. .
The commander of the Air Force at the time secretly asked his subordinates to arrange for Vasily to live in a single room, eat a small stove, and completely separated from the lives of ordinary students.
After Stalin heard about it, he severely approved the commander of the Air Force and ordered the 18-year-old cadet to be transferred to the barracks together with other cadets, and received a fixed ration like everyone else.
After graduation, the young officer was assigned to a flying regiment in Moscow. There, Vasily seemed to be overwhelmed with passion. He was addicted to drinking and having fun, chasing women, and his colleagues dared not speak.
Generally speaking, people who lack the love of their parents always want to get compensation from the love of husband and wife, and it is easy to get married early.
It was during this time that Vasily met his first wife Galina Bodonskaya and married at the age of 19.
Vasley and his wife and children
After Stalin learned of the marriage, he wrote a letter to his son with a red pencil, which read: "Why didn't you ask for my permission to get married? Bar,The devil took you away. I pity her: she married an idiot.
This is the wedding blessing of the great leader Stalin to his own son. People often envy being born in the house of the emperor. It seems that there is endless glory and wealth. In fact, sometimes, the warmth and warmth of ordinary people’s home is in the Prince. The princesses have become a scarce product.
After marriage, the young couple was ordered to move into the Kremlin , where they had a short happy time and had two children
The good times did not last long, but Vasily began to drink all day again, drunk all day long, indulging in alcohol and extramarital affairs. , But more important things are approaching: Hitler is about to violate the non-aggression treaty. At that time, it was the non-aggression treaty signed by and Sude that saved the Soviet Union from the horror of war.
On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and the Great Patriotic War started. Vasily was transferred to the front line in August 1941, and was changed to Ivanov in order to conceal his identity.
Soviet front
Vasily was not the only child of Stalin who joined the Soviet Red Army in the early days of World War II. His half-brother Yakov and Stalin's adopted son Artem Sergeye Husband was sent to the front by his father.
Unfortunately, in July 1941,Yakov was captured by the Germans. Stalin once ordered the Soviet Red Army not to surrender under any circumstances, and his son turned out to be a prisoner, which is a shame for Stalin.
Yakov was captured
After his brother Yakov was captured, Stalin stopped Vasily from flying a plane. But the stubborn Vasily dialed his father's phone time and time again and strongly demanded to participate in the air battle. His father replied: "One prisoner of war is enough."
Even so, Vasily participated in 29 combat missions. And shot down two enemy planes. It is said that when he is flying, there is always a formation to protect him.
But anyway, as the son of the commander-in-chief, this kind of military exploits is enough to promote him at rocket speed.
Vasily was promoted to captain within a year, then major, and finally colonel.
Fish fried incident
As the son of the Soviet leader, Vasily was not always popular, and colleagues secretly believed that he was an informant to his father.
In the spring of 1942, he was sent back to Moscow to take charge of some safe and leisurely work at the Air Force Command.
Although Vasily has a lot of problems, he is actually a motivated and brave man with superb flying skills and has always asked to go to the front.
He often feels uncomfortable to stay behind, but there are always people who think that he can enjoy the cool under the big tree of his father, which makes him even more uneasy.
In 1943, there was also a Vasily fish injury incident.
At that time, the flying brigade where Vasily was in came to the lake to fish in order to improve food.As a result, in order to be quick and more, they used rockets instead of the usual grenade to fry the fish.
As a result, the fish was exploded a lot. Six of the nine of them were injured. The engineer was killed. Vasily's heel was almost blown off. He couldn't help groaning in pain. Everyone was terrified.
General Gromov, the then Air Force commander, almost fainted when he heard that Vasily was also injured. 15 minutes later, he rushed in by plane.
Later, when Stalin learned about it, he naturally screamed at his son and demoted him.
Air Force Commander
Although Vasily had merits in World War II and won a lot of military medals, he was never recognized by his father. He could get further promotion only because senior officers wanted to please him. Father.
In 1948, Vasily, who was only 27 years old, became the commander of the Moscow Military Region Air Force with the rank of lieutenant general.
After the war, Vasily’s previous vices came back. He also organized an Air Force ice hockey team, often drinking and having fun with sports stars and beauties.
In 1950, the Air Force ice hockey team lost all their lives in a plane crash and none of them survived.
is the commander's son after all, and there are always more solutions than problems. Vasily was afraid of his father's anger, tried to cover up the accident, and magically replaced all the players with younger players, still defending the Soviet league champion, even Stalin was in the dark.
May 1, 1952The Soviet army held a large military parade. When the conditions were not met, Vasily recklessly ordered the plane to take off forcefully, which resulted in the destruction of the two fighter planes when they landed.
Stalin was very angry about this, and then revoked his son's post of commander of the military area air force, and in front of his closest assistant he scolded him harshly: "I don't know how to learn", "I'm a fool."
After that, Vasily had a depression and often drank alcohol. He once said, "I have only two ways: or else," he picked up the pistol and pointed at his temple , "or else," he drew his fingers into a wine glass.
What makes Vasily sad is that no matter how hard he tries, he always fails to meet the standards of his father Stalin, and what he gets is always his father's indifference and ridicule.
Fortunately, as the crown prince, Vasily has always been cared and protected by other senior Soviet leaders. Although there are a lot of prince's bad things on his body, he has also caused a lot of troubles, but Vasily has always been promoted at rocket speed.
Stalin died
However, when Stalin died on March 5, 1953, all this came to an abrupt end.
Vasily (left) at Stalin's memorial ceremony
Suddenly, the flatterers who pleased the Soviet crown prince no longer needed him. Before Stalin's bones were cold, Vasily was quickly deprived of his military rank and charged with "abuse of power, squandering and embezzlement of state property, embezzlement and maltreatment of subordinates", and sentenced to 8 years in prison .
Stalin and Khrushchev
After his family’s continuous letters and plea,On January 9, 1960, Vasily, who was suffering from an illness, was released early .
With sparse hair drooping on his forehead, Vasily, who was thin and sick, was escorted to the Kremlin. Khrushchev personally met him.
As soon as he entered Khrushchev's office, Vasily knelt down with a plop, requesting his release. Khrushchev was quite "moved", calling him "Lovely Vassenka" (Vasily’s nickname), and falsely asked: "What did they do to you?"
Home is destined to be deeply trapped in the whirlpool of power and unable to extricate itself. It is also destined to be lonely and sad. This is a pain that cannot be solved.
On March 19, 1962, Vasily died in the exile Kazan , reporting that he "died from alcoholism" at the age of 40.
It is said that he often muttered to himself in prison: What I hope is nothing more than a warm gaze and a loving word from my father.
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