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Upon hearing of his son's death, Stalin reportedly stared at his photograph; he would later soften his stance towards Dzhugashvili, saying he was "a real man" and that "fate treated him unjustly." [ 39 ] Meltzer would be released in 1946 and re-united with Galina, though the years apart had made Galina distant from her mother. [ 40 ]
They had one child, a son Iosif, who was born in 1945. [14] The couple divorced in 1947, but remained close friends for decades afterwards. [1] [15] Alliluyeva's second marriage was arranged for her to Yuri Zhdanov, the son of Stalin's right-hand man Andrei Zhdanov and himself one of Stalin's close associates. The couple married early in 1949.
In the early years of the war, the justification for such actions was provided by the Stalin's speech of November 6 1941, in which Stalin said that "From now on our task, the task of the peoples of the U.S.S.R., the task of the fighters, commanders and the political workers of our Army and our Navy will be to exterminate every single German who ...
Vasily was born on 21 March 1921, the son of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. [1] He had an older half-brother, Yakov Dzhugashvili (born 1907), from his father's first marriage to Kato Svanidze, and a younger sister, Svetlana, born in 1926.
In 1938, Stalin ordered Alyosha and his wife, Maria, to be arrested. He demanded Alyosha admit he was a German spy, but Alyosha refused. [34] Alyosha was executed in 1941, while Mariko and Maria were shot in 1942. [35] Alyosha and Maria's son, Ivan Svanidze, was briefly married to Stalin's only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. He filed for ...
The state pinned much of the motive on Murdaugh’s escalating financial crimes, arguing that he killed his wife and son to distract from what later transpired to be a decade-long multi-million ...
Russian historian Roy Medvedev speculates in his book, Neizvestnyi Stalin, that Stalin had made Suslov his "secret heir". [48] Evidently, Beria felt so threatened by Suslov that after his arrest in 1953, documents were found in his safe labelling Suslov the No. 1 person he wanted to "eliminate".
Beria's son, Sergo Beria, later recounted that after Stalin's death, his mother Nina told her husband that, "Your position now is even more precarious than when Stalin was alive." [ 11 ] This turned out to be correct; several months later, in June 1953, Beria was arrested and charged with a variety of crimes but, significantly, none relating to ...