He is a low-key "Prince of the Red Empire", no gorgeous clothes, no arrogant temper, and even no father's care!
Yakov Josefvich Dzhugashvili, if he were to be allowed to choose again, perhaps he would not be willing to be the son of the supreme leader of the Soviet Union.
Yakov was born to Stalin and his first wife, "Catherine Svanidze", and grew up not living with his father.
It was not until 1921 that Stalin brought the 14-year-old Yakov to his Kremlin.
And Yakov was extremely unfamiliar with this father in a high position, and even had a fear! Stalin actually loved him deeply, but this love could not be "overflowing" like ordinary fathers!
The father-son relationship soon came to a test: Yakov fell in love with a beautiful Jewish ballet dancer, Julia Meltze.
But their love was resolutely opposed by Stalin!
But Yakov had Stalin's blood flowing through him and inherited his "stubborn" character.
Therefore, without receiving his father's blessing, Yakov still chose to marry Yulia. This was the first time and the only time Yaakov had publicly disobeyed his father's orders.
Yakov's move made Stalin furious, and he never approved of this daughter-in-law: Yulia.
After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, Yakov was sent to the front as an ordinary soldier.
Before leaving, Yakov bid farewell to his wife and daughter, and he wanted to see his father Stalin, but because of the war situation, the father and son only talked on the phone once.
Stalin's last words to Yakov on the phone at that time were: "Go! Boy, fight a good war. ”
Unfortunately, Yakov was captured by the Germans in a battle. At first the Germans did not know that this well-dressed, low-key captive would be Stalin's son.
Later, when his identity was finally confirmed by the identification of traitors, the Germans rejoiced: they were on the front line trumpeting the "capture of Stalin's son" in an attempt to break the Soviets' will to resist.
But what the Germans did not know was that Yakov's father was not an ordinary man, but Stalin!
Perhaps out of consideration for the sake of the bigger picture, Stalin had to tearfully list his son as a "traitor" and prevented all secret rescues by his subordinates. Between the gain and loss of his son and the motherland, Stalin did not hesitate to choose the latter.
As for Yakov's final death, there is actually a very "bizarre" story: Yakov lived in Cell 1, where a total of five Allied prisoners of war lived.
In addition to Yaakov and Molotov's nephew Vasily Kokolin, three British pilots lived inside: Thomas Cushing, William Murphy and O'Brien.
Although everyone was an ally, Yaakov did not get along well with the British!
According to limited historical records, on April 14, 1943, Yakov and the British had a dispute, and then the two sides fought. Yakov's side was at a disadvantage in numbers and was eventually beaten to the ground by the British.
Suddenly, Yakov grabbed a wooden stick on the ground and rushed out like a lost mind.
In the rush, Yakov ignored the warnings of the German sentries and pounced on the high-voltage electric barbed wire fence outside. The German sentries opened fire, and Yakov died in a prisoner-of-war camp.
When the news of Yakov's death reached the Soviet Union, Stalin did not say a word, and then he locked himself alone in his office for a long, long time!
Yes, as a father, Stalin must have loved his son deeply. But as the supreme commander of the Soviet Union, his every move was related to the life and death of the country.
But there are also many people who believe that it is precisely because Stalin is too "desperate" that he indirectly led to Yakov's death. Because yakov learned that he had been branded a "traitor" by his father, his mental condition had gradually developed problems.
After Yakov's death, the Soviet top brass finally confirmed that Yakov was only a prisoner and that he had not betrayed the Soviet Union's behavior.
In 1977, Yakov was posthumously awarded the Great Patriotic War Medal by the Soviet Union, 24 years after Stalin's death.
