Unholy Trinity: The Parallel History of Three Dictators - Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin by Marcovici Ozias

Unholy Trinity: The Parallel History of Three Dictators - Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin by Marcovici Ozias

Author:Marcovici, Ozias [Marcovici, Ozias]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-01-16T16:00:00+00:00


Stalin

Stalin was married twice and had three children: two sons and a daughter. From his first marriage to Yekaterina (Kato) Svanidze he had one child, Yakov, and from the second marriage, to Nadezhda (Nadia) Alliluyeva, two children were born, Vasily and Svetlana. The fourth child was an adopted boy named Artem Sergeyev, who nevertheless was treated in the family in the same way as Stalin's biological children. An alleged third marriage of Stalin is sometimes mentioned, but there are no precise data to confirm it. Stalin would have had yet another son from a young woman, in one of his several periods of exile to a remote location in Siberia. Supposing this illegitimate child existed, there is no reliable information about his fate either. As Stalin loved and protected his children (especially Svetlana, the apple of his eye), it is hard to believe that he would have neglected him. Stalin was always surrounded by women, and in his awkward, sometimes embarrassed way, being a Georgian, he was delighted at the female "assault" to which he was constantly subjected, and engaged in little ephemeral affairs, which he quickly forgot. The super-human Stalin had human weaknesses too.

Kato Svanidze belonged to a well-heeled Georgian family. Her father, a teacher, took care of his children's education. Kato was beautiful, educated, refined and, like most members of the Svanidze family, active in the Bolshevik movement, which had gained momentum in the early 20th century. Kato was introduced to Stalin by her brother Alexander. At that time, Alexander and Stalin (who was still known as Joseph Dzhugashvili) were good friends, and also colleagues at the Tiflis (today Tbilisi) orthodox theological seminary. Unlike Stalin, who had been expelled from school, Alexander, a more serious, balanced type, eventually graduated. Kato and Stalin’s was a powerful, consuming love, and the only one in Stalin’s youth. In Kato’s presence, Stalin was an entirely different man. The revolutionary and agitator who fought in the streets, the brutal bank robber perpetually chased by the secret police, turned into a warm, attentive, affectionate man, eternally in love with Kato. Although Stalin was an atheist, he yielded to Kato’s entreats and in 1906 they wed at the Orthodox Church in Tiflis. Kato was 21 and Stalin was 27. Their marriage lasted less than two years, because Kato contracted typhus and died in 1907. The couple had one child, Yakov (Yasha), born in 1907. After his mother’s death, Yakov was raised by his maternal grandparents, and his mother's brother, uncle Alexander, became his adoptive father. In the summer of 1941, Yakov fell prisoner to the Germans in the battle of Smolensk. Stalin immediately disowned him, refusing any prisoner exchange proposed by the German side, which seemed very interested in Paulus, the "hero" of Stalingrad. After almost two years in detention, Yakov was shot (according to other sources, he committed suicide), in April 1943. At 36, Stalin's son left behind his wife Yulia Meltzer, a Jewish dancer, and their two children. After the premature death of



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