Stalin was an extremely important figure in the history of the Soviet Union and even in the world, leaving a very tough image for everyone.
However, a person's energy is limited, so is Stalin, and he has worked hard for the country, so his small family can not take much care of it, and Stalin has three children in his life:
The eldest son, Yakov, the second son Vasily, and the younger daughter Svetlana
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Among them, the eldest son died because of his orders, the second son was depressed because of him, and the younger daughter turned against him. From this point of view, he really is not a good father.
Stalin when he was young
Perhaps all this is related to Stalin's own life, his father was a shoemaker, not very good to him, once wanted Stalin to learn to repair shoes to inherit the craft.
And his father loves to drink, after drinking love to yell at people, and finally because of the drunken dispute with people and stabbed to death, Stalin was not very old at that time, it can be said that basically did not feel the father's love, so according to Soviet statistics, he only mentioned his father in public:
As a shoemaker, father was not a true proletarian, for he still had petty-bourgeois ideas.
It can be seen that Stalin did not learn how to be a father from his father, and he experienced a long period of turbulent life when he was young, which also developed his tenacious character.
Therefore, he very much hopes that the child can inherit his will, so he will not express his feelings to the child.
Stalin
The eldest son, Yakov, was indeed a qualified soldier, and in the military academy and the army, his superiors gave him a high evaluation, and although Stalin did not perform in front of people, he was also proud of this son.
When the Soviet-German War broke out in 1941, Yakov took the initiative to go to the front, but the German army in the early stage was like a broken bamboo, the Soviet army was defeated again and again, and Yakov was unfortunately captured.
After more than a year in prison in a German concentration camp, Yakov died in despair, and there are many theories about his death, but two sentences from his father
"I will not exchange a marshal for a soldier", "There are no prisoners of war on the battlefield, only traitors"
It can be said that he lost all hope.
This was not the first time Stalin had spoken harshly to his son; he had always been the kind of strict father who scolded Yakov's fiancée, Yulia, very rudely when he learned that Yakov's fiancée, Yulia, was Jewish.
Yakov was angry and shot himself, but he did not die, and when Stalin saw his wounded son, he said:
"He couldn't shoot accurately"
Maybe he hated iron not steel, but he really didn't care about his son's feelings.
Captured Yakov
Second son
Vassili
He was also a soldier, Stalin was already very busy at birth, so he was brought up by his mother since childhood, and his mother's suicidal temperament changed greatly at the age of 12.
When Stalin learned that the son had no intention of studying, he did not enlighten, and wrote directly to his teacher, demanding that Vasili's study must be strict and that he should not be afraid of Vasily committing suicide.
Vasily later became an air force, survived the war years, and at the age of 27 became commander of the Moscow Air Force, with the rank of lieutenant general. However, because of the 1952 military parade, his air force made a little mistake, and two fighter planes were destroyed.
Stalin scolded his son in front of many people
"No learning, no tricks", "fool"
Waited and removed him from his post, and since then Vasily has been sinking into alcoholism day by day.
After Stalin's death, the son lived almost entirely in prison and ended up depressed.
Little daughter
Svetlana
Compared to two older brothers, he lost his mother at the age of 6, so he was more rebellious. When he was 16 years old, he fell in love with the married Jewish writer Alexei Kapler, and Stalin did not know about it, and directly beat the Mandarin duck and arrested Alexei and sent him to prison.
Later, Svetlana married her classmate Glikri Molosov, who was again Jewish, and Stalin never recognized this son-in-law. Three years later Svetlana divorced, and then Glicky Molosov was also fired from the unit.
Svetlana finally embarked on the path of political marriage at the age of 23, but divorced after having children.
Later, she learned that her mother did not die of appendicitis, and that her first love boyfriend had been locked up in prison, and the whole person was very angry, so she broke with her father and even changed her mother's surname.
After Stalin's death, Svetlana went to the United States, and her nationality was changed from the Soviet Union to the United States, she had said
"My life is too heavy, too heavy to talk about, and even more unbearable to live."
He also said that he could not escape the shadow caused by his father.
Svetlana died of cancer in the United States on November 22, 2011, at the age of 85.
Stalin with his daughter
At best, Stalin was concerned that everyone forgot about their small family, but for children, it was not actually happy.