"It was my father who ruined me!" Stalin's youngest daughter complained bitterly in the face of the Western media.
He was the son of a blacksmith, an undefeated priest, and the godfather of steel who ruled the Soviet Union for 39 years.
This strong man with an iron fist gave his precious family a few tender feelings, but his two wives died one after another, and his three children also died in a foreign land.
Even the youngest daughter who was most beloved before she died did not recognize this "loving father", how would Stalin feel if he knew about it?
Love that ends without a disease
In 1905, a beautiful Georgian girl captured Stalin's heart, her name was Catherine.
The girl's father took in Stalin, who was being pursued by the police at the time, and during that turbulent and displaced period, the beautiful Catherine accompanied Stalin, they chatted, sang and danced, and Stalin's personality charm quickly made the young girl fall.
Stalin often went out on dates with Catherine despite the risk of being caught by the police, and the lovers eventually became dependents, and the two entered the palace of marriage with the blessing of relatives and friends.
Although there was no decent dress; although to hide the eyes, the wedding could only be held at two o'clock in the morning. But for those who love each other, being together is the greatest happiness.
Accustomed to Stalin's "gangster" style in the Caucasus, and seeing the gentleness shown in the face of Catherine, the comrades were astonished.
Perhaps this is the power of love, tender as water, good times as dreams. At that time, both of them must have the belief of holding the hand of the son and growing old with the son.
After their marriage, the two soon had a son, but as a Bolshevik revolutionary, Stalin had many more important things to accomplish. Families always gathered less and more, and in those turbulent times, Stalin often needed to launch strikes and armed struggles.
After their family moved to Baku, Catherine was left alone in an unfamiliar city, worried about Stalin who was out all the time, and the hot weather and harsh environment made Catherine quickly fall ill in bed.
Seven feet of body, it is already difficult for the country to xu Qing. When Stalin learned that his wife was suffering from a vicious disease, Catherine was already dying of typhoid fever and macules.
The year-long marriage had come to an end with the death of his wife, when Catherine was only 22 years old and died.
Looking at his buried wife a little bit, Stalin's feelings were also sealed in the coffin, becoming more and more cold, cold, and taciturn.
Uncle's marriage to Lori
Stalin's second wife was the daughter of his revolutionary comrades-in-arms, and their encounter has a small story.
In 1903, Stalin rescued a drowning child in a pool in Baku, a girl who was only two years old at the time, his wife, Nadezhda, who had accompanied him for 13 years. Perhaps, at this moment, the image of Stalin's great shore was stationed in the girl's heart.
As a child who grew up in a revolutionary family, Nadezhda was very studious.
In Russia, where the Tsar was overthrown and the Bolsheviks established the first dictatorship of the proletariat, in this period when "all power was vested in the Soviets", Nadezhda admired Stalin as a progressive youth, like many young people of the time.
After living alone for 16 years, in 1919, the forty-one-year-old Stalin married eighteen-year-old Nadezhda. Although the age difference between the two is extremely large, the life of love after marriage was once envied.
At this time, Stalin ended his life of displacement, his ideals were realized in the motherland, and now he has a young and beautiful wife, all of which seems to be hard-won.
But it is clear that the hard-won life is not yet stable. Faced with different political views within the Party, the remnants of the Tsars at home and the white capitalist army waiting to seize power, the international criticism of the Bolsheviks and the isolation of Russia, and the occasional attacks by neighboring countries, stalin was overwhelmed and it was not the time to enjoy it.
The young Nadezhda did not give up studying and working, and the wives of the revolutionaries at that time would not be willing to wash their hands and make soup.
Nadezhda was no exception, she received a good education, went to the front with Stalin, worked as a secretary in Lenin's office, and went to the Industrial Institute to study chemical fibers and vowed to contribute to the industrial construction of the Soviets.
In political life, everyone is walking like ice, and a mistake can be doubted and criticized. Stalin also put away unnecessary emotions and devoted all his energy to work.
Although Stalin was already the supreme leader of the Soviets at this time, he also became more and more cold and authoritarian in the eyes of those around him.
Two people with their own careers, both have their own opinions, and quarrels are inevitable.
Nadezhda also suffered from craniosym osteosis, which often caused her to have unbearable headaches, and many famous medical hospitals she visited were not completely treated. The illness made her temper irritable and irritable. And to meet Stalin, who had a strong desire for control and sometimes was arrogant and domineering, it was like the tip of a needle to Mai Mang.
Everything foreshadowed the end of their marriage, but no one expected it to end with Nadezhda's suicide.
In 1932, as the Soviet Union celebrated the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution, banquets in the Kremlin were extremely enjoyable. But a few verbal clashes between the two at the banquet made the strong and stubborn Nadezhda feel like ashes.
Early the next morning, Nadezhda, who had committed suicide with a pistol, was found. There was also a suicide note next to him, and no one but Stalin knew what it had written.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the calm Stalin blocked the news for the first time and announced to the outside world that his wife had died of illness. This lie also deceived the young children of the time.
Children of strangers
Stalin is known for having three children.
The eldest son was born to his first wife, Catherine, who was raised by her grandfather and uncle after her death, and did not live with Stalin until the age of 14.
The second son and the younger daughter were all born by Nadezhda, who have always been raised by his side, and have left many photos with Stalin.
The three children grew up in different ways, but all died in the same unwilling way.
Yakov grew up with his grandfather and developed his frugal and tenacious character. As Stalin's eldest son, Yakov was expected to have more expectations and was taught harshly by his father.
Following his father's advice, he entered the Artillery Academy and participated in World War II, where he was captured by the Germans in July 1941 and subsequently imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Hitler was overjoyed to learn of this, and in 1943 offered Stalin to exchange his son for German Field Marshal Paulus. But Stalin refused without hesitation, saying , " I don't like to exchange a general for a soldier." He died in a concentration camp shortly after.
As early as a few years ago, during the Great Purge, the world saw Stalin's iron face ruthlessness, but what he did not expect was that he did the same to his own relatives.
The second son, Vasily, grew up with Stalin, who, although he did not teach much personally, was more kind to this son, and Vasily, who had an arrogant personality since childhood, has been smooth sailing under the careful care of his parents.
It wasn't until the year his mother died that he broke down that "mother was everything to him." ”
Later, Vasily entered the Air Force, and during World War II, he was always able to mingle with everyone, following his soldiers recalling, "We all respected him, liked him, and even took pride in Vasili's command of us." ”
By 1947, at the age of 26, Vasily was in a high position in the Air Force.
But Vasily's arrogant personality since childhood, and he is also an alcoholic. When his father Stalin was terminally ill, he was still drinking and hanging out. Vasily was soon sent to prison for his extravagant and lavish lifestyle, abuse of power, corruption and other issues.
Several years of prison life had worn away Vasily's will and made him a complete wreck.
At this time, Vasily became more and more nervous in the eyes of others, and he continued to drink and make trouble all day, privately meeting the Chinese poop and even writing letters to Mao Zedong, making anti-government remarks, and even threatening to launch a coup d'état...
Vasily died on March 19, 1962, in kazan, a place of exile. The cause of death in the report reads "alcoholism."
Stalin was exiled to Siberia, but he returned with an iron will. After Vasily was exiled to Kazan, he was completely demoralized and died in a foreign land.
Revenge on the father
Stalin's only daughter, Svetlana, was also his most beloved child, but after Stalin's death, she fled to the United States and became a traitor among the Soviet population at that time. Her love life was also bumpy, she experienced four marriages, but eventually she was alone and died in the United States.
Svetlana had a happy childhood, but everything changed since her mother's suicide. During the Great Purge, Stalin's brutality and despotism planted the seeds of doubt in Svetlana's mind, and the more she grew up, the more rebellious she became.
Sixteen-year-old Svetlana fell in love with the forty-year-old married Jewish writer Alexei, and Stalin was so furious that he imprisoned Alexei for espionage for a decade.
Stalin, as the supreme leader of the government, had a strong desire for control and expressed his love for his family in this way, but such love without warmth would only suffocate people.
Since then, Svetlana has become more and more casual.
At the age of eighteen, Svetlana suddenly announced that she was married to a classmate and had a son. But the marriage lasted only three years.
At the age of twenty-three, she married the son of Stalin's assistant, a political marriage that had no emotional basis and ended after giving birth to a daughter.
After Stalin's death in 1953, Svetlana was like the sword of Damocles taken to her head, giving her unprecedented freedom.
In 1963, when Svetlana, who was thirty-seven years old, had matured, she met a true lover, and they were soon married. This Indian brought him real happiness, but the good times did not last long, and her husband died of illness.
Since then, Svetlana has no nostalgia for this land, and she has begun to plan to go to the United States.
The trip abroad was called a "defection" by the Soviets, and the Western media also reported it as a way to attack Stalin and the Soviet Union. For Svetlana, it was simply a personal choice to get out of her father's shadow and get complete freedom.
In the United States, Svetlana met her fourth husband, with whom she had a daughter, and the strong-natured Svetlana was at odds with her weak and gentle husband. After careful consideration, the marriage was finally ended.
In her twilight years, her children were not around, and Svetlana was still alone.
"My life is too heavy, too heavy to talk about, and even more unbearable to live."
She felt that she was constantly watching her father, and when she learned the real cause of her mother's death, Svetlana hated her father a little more.
Svetlana published memoirs and books in the United States, which gave her the capital to survive in the United States, but also became a weapon for the West to attack Stalin and attack the Soviet Union. Maybe this is also how she chose to take revenge on her father.
Her emotions have been displaced for a lifetime, but she has no place to go, and she is alone in a foreign country to bid farewell to the world, and she also takes away the hatred for her father. Svetlana died in the United States on November 22, 2011.
Imagine that when Stalin died in 1953, people packed up his belongings and found that he had only some clothes and a few hundred rubles.
Stalin transformed the whole of Russia with his steel wrist, inheriting a backward Russia with ploughers and leaving behind the Soviet Union armed with atomic bombs. For decades, it was a breeze in both sleeves.
Some called him a tyrant, a demon, a dictator, and others called him a savior.
In those turbulent years, he was the light in the hearts of countless people, but in the eyes of his children, he was the perpetrator of his own life.
Stalin has been dead for years, but his story is still circulating. A cry of "Ulla" cried out to his pride, knowing that I sin against me, and that it was only Spring and Autumn.