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true??

posted 15 years ago by sandyp2003
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Is there any factual information to support this movie? Stalin did have a daughter thats all I know?

[–] flyboard 15 years ago

His daughter is a naturalized United States Citizen. She caused quite the international incident when she defected in 67. She lives in Wisconson now after bouncing back and forth between the US, England and Russia during Glastnost and post-collapse. Stalin had a son as well who died back in the 60s of alcoholism. He was a poor student and ended up becoming a high ranking pilot and officer in the Soviet Air Force before his death. His son was given many special priviledges when he arrived at the military school, but his father soon put a stop to that.

So to answer your question, unless there is some super secret son the world doesnt know about the answer to your question is no. There is no factual information to support this movie.

[–] salmo365 15 years ago

And of course that's what they'd want you to think.

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[–] JFTheGoodMan 14 years ago

Stalin is believed to have had a son when he was in exile in Siberia with a common law wife. According to BBC, there is still a grandson of Stalin puttering around in Russia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1245986.stm

[–] chicago85 10 years ago

He had a couple of sons. Yakov was captured at the Battle of Smolensk in 1941. He was a lieutenant in the artllery. The Germans tried to trade him for Field Marshall Paulus. Stalin refused. Some say he committed suicide at Sacksenhausen Concentration Camp in 1943. The British captured the records which stated he left his barracks and walked around refusing to go back. He shouted "shoot" when ordered back and a guard shot him in the head. This may have been a form of suicide. The Americans and British did not tell Stalin these details at Potsdam because that would have lead to questions about how many archives they had captured and what they contained.

He left children from his marriage.

Another son Vasily was by Stalin's second wife. He was a Lt Col in the air force in WWII flying combat sorties against the Germans downing at least one fighter. He rose to General but was sacked in 1952. He ordered planes to fly in bad weather for a military parade and a bomber crashed. In 1953 after his father died he was arrested and charged with revealing secrets at a dinner with foreign diplomats. This was during the power struggle with Beria being shot to death. He was given a kangaroo trial and not allowed legal representation in secret and imprisoned under a fake name until 1960. They then released him and returned some of his rights and a miltary pension. He died in 1962 probably of alcoholism. Vasily was also married. In 2001 a grandson Yuri Daveydov, previously unknown, surfaced. He said his father had told him to keep his head down due to the anti Stalin campaign.