In September 1939, after the outbreak of World War II. By then the Axis powers were ready, and the Allies had been on the defensive, but strategically. In order to rally the people to participate in front-line warfare, President Roosevelt sent his 4 sons and 1 son-in-law directly to the front line, and Stalin also followed President Roosevelt's example and directly sent his two sons to the battlefield.
However, president Roosevelt's sons made many achievements in the war because they participated in the war, and After Stalin's eldest son Yakov entered the battlefield for more than 20 days, he was caught by the enemy because he was pit by his pig teammates. According to Yakov's good friend Colonel Ivan Sapekin, the artillery regiment fell into a circle, and the mayor simply left the soldiers alone and escaped in tanks. Tanks passed directly by Yakov. The political commissar in charge of finding Yakov, after directly leading the team around, thought that Yakov had returned to the team.
After clarifying the identity of this prisoner of war, the Germans were overjoyed. In order to dismantle the Soviet army, which was still stubbornly resisting, the Germans forged Yakov's open letter of treason to the Soviet people, saying that Yakov had severed ties with his father. Yakov cursed the Soviet system, criticizing the resistance to German aggression, saying that resistance was useless, because the heroic Hitler army was bound to strangle the Red Army.
The Germans also gave Yakov a very great temptation, and sent General Vlasov, who had surrendered to Germany, to persuade him to surrender, but Yakov ignored it. Due to Yakov's lack of cooperation, german propaganda did not have the desired effect.
And because of the german multi-front war, the Soviet Union had taken the initiative in the war, and also captured marshal Paulus of the German army at the Battle of Stalingrad. Hitler saw that Yakov still did not react at all, so he told Stalin that he could exchange Yakov for the captured Marshal Paulus. Hitler also thought Stalin would accept it. However, thinking of the tens of millions of Soviet people who died in the Battle of the Soviet Union, Stalin replied decisively: "I will not exchange an enemy marshal for a soldier." ”
Stalin's words undoubtedly dealt a fatal blow to Yakov, who was still stubbornly resisting in the concentration camps. The Canadian Stalin said this to yakov in the Saxon "Ottawa Daily" recorded Yakov's suicide, when Yakov ran directly to the barbed wire grid when he was assembled in prison, indicating that Yakov was bent on death.
And it is precisely because of the death of his brother that Stalin's daughter has never forgiven him, which is equivalent to Stalin having lost a pair of children. But it is comforting to note that Yakov's son, Yevgeni, campaigned to preserve Stalin's reputation until his death after 2016.