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- He was a combat pilot. At the age of 17, Vasily Stalin enrolled in flight school, where he showed no interest in studying. However, he turned out to be a good pilot.
- After the war he became an air force commander. During the war, Vasily twice received the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov II degree and the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
- He patronized athletes. In his position as head of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District, Vasily Stalin became active as a patron of sports – he put together football, hockey and basketball teams and organized a sports club for the Moscow Military District.
- He planned to create Soviet Formula 1. After the war, 18 “Auto Union Typ 650” cars were discovered in Saxony, Germany. They had been manufactured in 1940 to participate in the European Grand Prix of Motor Racing.
Childhood & Early Life. Vasily Iosifovich Stalin was born on March 21, 1921, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, to Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Vasily had a younger sister and two half-brothers, namely Svetlana, Yakov Dzhugashvili, and Konstantin Kuzakov.
Joseph Stalin led the country known as the Soviet Union for about 25 years. He made the Soviet Union into a world power, but he was known for his harsh rule. Early Life…
- Vasily Stalin Was Pampered in A Dysfunctional Home
- He Joined The Air Force — and Took to Alcohol
- He Saw Limited Action in World War II and Became A General Anyway
- Vasily Stalin Descends Into Alcoholism and Dies in Exile
When Vasily Dzhugashvili was born on March 21, 1921, his father was still the subordinate to Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of Soviet Russia. His mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, was Joseph Stalin’s second wife, and he was Stalin’s second son. A dedicated member of the Communist Party, Alliluyeva initially served as Lenin’s secretary. But Stalin made...
In 1938, as Vasily’s school days came to an end, he decided to become a pilot in the Soviet Air Force. During his training, Lavrentiy Beria, head of the secret police, ensured the young Stalin that he would want for nothing while in the force and gave him private quarters and luxurious food. As soon as his father found out, he ordered that the 18-y...
Vasily wasn’t Stalin’s only child to join the Soviet military in the early days of World War II. His older half-brother, Yakov — the product of Stalin’s first marriage — had been ordered to the front by their father along with Artyom Sergeyev, Stalin’s adopted third son. In July 1941, Yakov was captured by the Germans, which was a humiliation for h...
With the end of the war, Vasily’s vices returned in force. Over the years, Vasily fostered a love of ice hockey and eventually became the coach of Russia’s team. But in 1950, nearly all of the team was killed in a plane crash. Terrified of his father’s response and incapable of doing anything else, Vasily covered up the tragedy and reportedly repla...
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After the death of Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin ceased to visit his children; only the nursemaid and head of Stalin's security guards looked after Vasily and his sister. With his father absent, Vasily became close to Károly Pauker, a Hungarian who worked as a bodyguard for his father.
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878 - 1953) with his son, Vasily (1921 - 1962) and daughter Svetlana (1926 - 2011) at one of Stalin's dachas. Both children would face severe fate. Getty Images
Oct 17, 2018 · Vasily and Svetlana with their father in 1935. She was only 6 when her mother, also Vasily’s mother, committed suicide, but she did not learn the truth until she was a teenager, having been told at the time that her mother died of appendicitis.
