Stalin's tragic family life: his wife committed suicide in a bizarre way, his two sons died and his daughter defected

After Lenin's death, stalin, the strongman, rose up and ruled the Soviet Union for 39 years (1924-1953), during which the merits and demerits of the right and wrong are not discussed here, believing that history will give him a fair and fair evaluation, and we will talk about his family life today. In fact, as a political strongman, although Stalin can dominate everything and do whatever he wants at home, he cannot be so casual in terms of family life, and it can even be said that his family life is very unsuccessful and tragic!

According to public records, Stalin had only two formal wives in his lifetime, and had two sons and a daughter, and there were not many family members. In Stalin's family, except for the early death of his wife Svanidze, everyone else had enjoyed a happy life of pampering and pampering and the stars in stalin's reign, but at the same time, they also endured the pressure of excessive status and fame, and without exception had a tragic ending. What is all this all about?

Stalin's wife, Catherine Svanidze, is very little known, we only know that she was a Georgian with Stalin, married in 1904, and had only one son, Named Yakov. Svanidze lived with Stalin for only three years before dying of typhus in 1907.

Stalin's successor, Nadezhda Aliluyeva, was 23 years younger and the younger daughter of Stalin's old friend Aliluyev. Nadezhda accidentally drowned at the age of two, but thanks to Stalin's rescue, he was able to survive, and he did not expect to achieve a marriage 16 years later. Nadezhda officially married Stalin at the age of 18 and had a son and a daughter for him. Nadezhda was at first very affectionate with her husband, but with Stalin's authoritarian policies after coming to power, coupled with Stalin's increasingly rough temperament, the contradictions between the husband and wife gradually deepened, and eventually developed to irreconcilable points.

On the evening of November 8, 1932, the Soviet high command celebrated the 15th anniversary of the victory of the October Revolution in the Kremlin, with the participation of both Stalin and Nadezhda. During the banquet, Stalin flirted with a beautiful noblewoman, and Nadezhda dissuaded him, but was wantonly insulted by Stalin. Despite the presence of everyone, Stalin threw a burning cigarette in his wife's face, causing her to leave in tears, and Stalin immediately left. Late that night, a gunshot rang out from Nadezhda's bedroom, and the next day the maid found her lying in a pool of blood. Next to Nadezhda was a small pistol, a letter to her husband, and several fragrant white roses.

Stalin's eldest son, Named Yakov, was raised by his aunt, uncle and others after the death of his mother Svanidze due to illness, and was separated from his father for 13 years, and did not enter Stalin's home in Moscow until 1921. At the request of his father, Yakov was admitted to the Railway Transport Engineering College and the Command Department of the Artillery College, and after graduation, he served in the Fourteenth Tank Division. After the start of the Soviet-German War, the Soviet army collapsed, the Fourteenth Tank Division was also destroyed by the Germans, and Yakov, who was serving in the army at the time, was unfortunately captured and imprisoned by the Germans in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

After Yakov was captured, Hitler, after learning of his identity, "like a treasure", negotiated with Stalin in 1943, asking yakov to exchange for German Marshal Paulus, who had been captured by the Soviets, but the other side refused, claiming that "I do not like to exchange a general for a soldier." On April 14 of that year, Yakov was killed in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. There are many theories about Yakov's death, ranging from the shooting of the Germans to the humiliation of suicide, which remains a mystery to this day.

Stalin's second son Vasily was born to Nadezhda, graduated from the Kacha Military Flight School, went to the Soviet-German battlefield as a pilot, and personally shot down two fighters, and was promoted to aviation corps commander and division commander for meritorious service. Vasily was appointed commander of the air force of the Moscow Military District in 1947 at the age of 26! Vasily became famous at a young age, and it was inevitable that he would be arrogant and frivolous, and pay a price for it. During the Soviet military parade in 1952, Vasily forced the planes to take off when conditions were not available, resulting in the destruction of the landing of the two fighters. Stalin, in his fury, dismissed Vasily from his post and called him a "fool and a fool," which led to Vasily's demoralization.

After Vasily was dismissed, he spent all day drinking wine to dispel his sorrows, like a waste. After Stalin's death, Vasily deteriorated, first by forced discharge, then arrested, and exiled to Kazan after trial. On March 19, 1962, Vasily died mysteriously in Kazan, and prison reports described him as a "drunkard." After Vasily's death, his wife, Kabitolina, refused to acknowledge the report's claims, claiming that Vasily was a victim of politics.

Born to Nadezhda, Svetlana was Stalin's only daughter and was greatly favored by Stalin. Svetlana's life was full of rebellious spirits and twists and turns, and at the age of 16, she fell in love with the married Jewish writer Alexei, and Stalin learned of it and threw the man into prison, which led to Svetlana's feud with him and change her mother's surname. Svetlana married four times since then, two of them foreigners, all of whom ended in divorce except for her Indian husband, Shin Ichi, all of whom ended in divorce.

Svetlana was persecuted by Stalin for her first love boyfriend, and later learned the truth about her mother's death, and she hated her father very much. Coupled with the development of the situation in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, Svetlana felt that she was in danger, and finally "defected" to the United States in 1967, which became the big news that caused a sensation in the world at that time. After arriving in the United States, Svetlana publicly burned her passport and denounced the Soviet Union, calling her father Stalin a "moral and spiritual devil", which greatly disgraced the Soviet authorities. In 2011, Svetlana died of illness in the United States.

The members of the Stalin family, once high and shrouded in aura, have all encountered the "curse" of fate without exception, and the outcome is really regrettable.