Brief biography of Vasily Stalin

A very interesting figure is the younger sonthe leader of the peoples Vasily Stalin. Biography, his photos are available for review in this publication. Vasily was born in 1921 in Moscow. His mother was Nadezhda Alliluyeva. After her suicide, he was brought up by the head of the Stalinist protection Vlasik. Biography of Vasily Stalin says that he graduated from the Crimean Kachin Air School, and then the Lipetsk Higher Aviation Courses.

Despite the nondescript appearance (skininess,small growth, caulking), he was distinguished by wit and gentleness. This made Vasily the favorite of the representatives of the opposite sex. Of course, the status of the son of the leader and the fact that he was a pilot played no small role here.

Vasily was a good athlete. He was fond of cars and motorcycles, riding horses. In 1940, Galina Burdonskaya married him for it. It was the first marriage, but not the last. A year later they had a son, Alexander. An interesting fact is that one of the wives of the son of the leader was the daughter of Marshal Timoshenko.

Biography of Vasily Stalin tells thathe was a member of the Second World War. As a pilot, he made 27 sorties and shot down two German aircraft. He started the war in the captain's rank. For a time, Vasily was an inspector of the Red Army aviation. In 1943, he was appointed commander of the air regiment. In May of the same year, Basil was removed from office on the orders of his father for "rampant and drunkenness." Biography of Vasily Stalin says that in 1944-1945 he commanded first one, and then another air division. During the Second World War he was awarded the Order of Suvorov, the Red Banner (twice), Alexander Nevsky. According to the characteristics of contemporaries and leadership, the leader's son was weak-willed and commander-like qualities did not possess at all. Vasily was hot-tempered, hot, irritable. He suffered from alcoholism and tolerated assault with respect to his subordinates.

The biography of Basil Stalin testifies,that he at the age of 20 directly from the majors became a colonel, and at 29 he was awarded the rank of lieutenant-general. In the period 1947-1952 the son of the leader was deputy and commander of the Air Force of the Moscow District. In 1949 he became a deputy to the USSR Armed Forces. He headed the equestrian federation of the Union. With his light hand, projects were approved for the construction of equestrian sports facilities and bases, and also started breeding the best breeds of racehorses. The son of the leader received large financing from the treasury for all his sports projects.

It is believed that traditionally strong sportsthe command of the Air Force was created by Stalin Vasily Iosifovich. His biography, however, shows that he solved all sports problems by orders and sometimes by intimidation. In 1946, his complaint to his father caused a wave of arrests of the leaders of the Air Force. Among them was Marshal Novikov. After the death of his father, Vasily was fired from the army and was forbidden to wear uniforms, and soon he was arrested and sentenced to 8 years. In 1960, the son of the leader was released ahead of schedule, restored in rank and returned to the Party membership card. About a month after he left prison, he got into an accident in a drunken state by car. For this Vasily was deported to Kazan, forbidding him to live in Georgia and Moscow. He died in 1962. An autopsy diagnosed a complete destruction of the body due to alcoholism.