Galina Dzhugashvili-Stalina: My father was portrayed in captivity by a double agent from the Abwehr. Galina Dzhugashvili: "I still miss my father"

Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili (1938 - 2007) - Russian philologist, writer and memoirist. Granddaughter of I. V. Stalin. Galina Dzhugashvili was born in Moscow in the family of the eldest son of I.V. Stalin - Yakov Dzhugashvili and ballerina Yulia Meltzer. The last time she saw her father was when she was 3 years old, before he left for the front. After the news came that Yakov Dzhugashvili was captured, Galina's mother was arrested and spent a year and a half in prison. Subsequently, Galina Dzhugashvili, in her interviews, denied the version of her father's fate accepted by historians.

Galina Dzhugashvili graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, candidate of philological sciences. She worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of World Literature. In 1970, she married Hussein bin Saad, an Algerian citizen who worked as a UN emergency expert. As a philologist, Galina Dzhugashvili studied the literature of Algeria, written in both French and Arabic. She published the monograph “Algerian Francophone Romance” (1976), compiled and commented on the collections “Poetry of the Maghreb” (1978, together with N. Lutskaya) and “From Algerian Poetry of the 20th Century” (1984). In the 1990s Dzhugashvili made her debut as a prose writer and memoirist, releasing two books of fiction (co-authored with Gala Kraeva) and several reprinted memories of her family. Was accepted as a member of the Writers' Union of Russia

Galina Dzhugashvili-Stalina: My father was portrayed in captivity by a double agent from the Abwehr. Yakov Dzhugashvili's daughter commented on archival materials on this topic

Galina Yakovlevna, were you the only child in the family?
- Yes.
Do you remember your father well?
- Of course I remember. He gave me books, bells, drove me in a car ...
- And how did you go to the front, remember?
- No. My nanny told me about it. She said that large portraits of her grandfather hung in the street. And for some reason I rushed to these portraits and shouted that it was dad.
- There is a version that allegedly Yakov Dzhugashvili went to the front at the insistence of his father, Joseph Stalin ...
- No, it's complete nonsense. My father was a professional soldier, he graduated from the artillery academy, and when the war began, he never thought of doing otherwise.
- As "material evidence" that Yakov Dzhugashvili did not die in battle in mid-July 1941, but was captured, the Germans used a note that he allegedly wrote to his father ...
- Yes, and it was this note that was contained in the leaflets that the Germans scattered from aircraft over the positions of the Soviet troops. But once again I can repeat: this is a fake, which is documented. There is a certificate from the Center for Forensic and Forensic Examinations of the Russian Ministry of Defense (see photocopy. - A.G.), which says: “Letter on behalf of Ya. I. Dzhugashvili dated July 19, 1941, beginning with the words “Dear father! .. ” and ending with the words “...Hello everyone. Yasha ", performed not by Dzhugashvili Yakov Iosifovich, but by another person." The same applies to another "handwritten note" - dated September 20, 1942 - which Yakov Dzhugashvili allegedly left in the diary of the Yugoslav General Stefanovich in a concentration camp.

How was it proven? Compare handwriting - real and fake?
- Yes. I handed over for examination my father's notebooks with notes and also his letter, which he sent to my mother from the front. It was the only one, there were no more letters from the pope.
- Well, as for the pictures “Jakov Dzhugashvili in captivity”, which were also placed on fascist leaflets ...
- There is also an expert opinion on this matter - all the “pictures” were made by photomontage, with the use of abundant retouching and the “mirror reflection” technique. By the way, there is not a single filming of Stalin's son in captivity. If my father had really surrendered to the Germans, such materials would certainly have been preserved.

In our previous publication, you also mentioned the “interrogation protocols” of Yakov Dzhugashvili. How did they get to you?
- I've only seen copies. They were shown to me by a journalist named Apt, who lived somewhere in Sukhumi, and they came to him from Germany.

All the protocols were without the signature of the person being interrogated.

The question may arise: if an Abwehr agent posing as Yakov Dzhugashvili was interrogated, why did he or someone else not put a fake signature? After all, they could forge a note ...
Well, you know, it took time. After all, you can’t fake it right away to make it convincing.
- What else made you think that the “protocols” are fake?

They not only contradicted each other. It seemed that the person who pretended to be the "son of Stalin" did not even really know his biography. He called the city of Baku the place of his birth. But I still keep my father's passport at home (see photocopy. - A. G.), which says that he was born in the village of Badzi, this is Georgia. Apparently, the Germans cooked up the "legend" in a hurry ...
- When did all these studies take place?
- Back in 2002. After versions arose again that my father was still in captivity, I offered to conduct a second examination - both notes and photographs, but for some reason they did not do this. I believe that the results of previous examinations do not cause any doubts.

I read somewhere that the family of Yakov Dzhugashvili, after he was allegedly captured, was expelled from Moscow.
- No, it wasn't.
- In your book you write that it was your mother, Yulia Isakovna, who first told you that your father was captured and died in a concentration camp. Where did she get this information from?
- She was told about it by official, respectable persons.
- And who exactly?
- I do not know that.
- In the book, you claim that Stalin’s phrase “I don’t change a soldier for a field marshal!” included in the history textbooks! - an invention of the screenwriter of the film "Liberation".
- Yes. And I am absolutely sure that Hitler never offered Joseph Vissarionovich to change Field Marshal Paulus for Yakov Dzhugashvili. And he couldn't do it.
- Do you know how Stalin reacted to the “note from his son from captivity”, which was delivered to him through diplomatic channels?
- Officially, he did not react to it in any way.
- What about unofficially? Purely human...
- It is difficult for me to judge this, because then I was too young.
- But maybe in the family - both then and later - there were some conversations?
- No. This topic has been somehow bypassed. And Svetlana Alliluyeva (daughter of Joseph Stalin. - A. G.) never told me anything about this. But, I believe, Joseph Vissarionovich was still worried, and in order. I couldn't help but worry. He was not made of stone. Although outwardly, it might look like that.

There was a “picture” on the German leaflets: dad was sitting at the table with the Germans, and he was wearing an old jacket, which he usually wore for fishing and hunting. It was an explicit montage using a photo from a family album. How she could get to the Germans is unclear. We decided that my mother, obviously, passed it on. And there was another moment. The military address of the father from civilians was known only to the mother. And the Germans in July 1941 very quickly surrounded the regiment where dad was, as if they knew that Stalin's son was there. They also remembered that my mother was undergoing treatment in Germany in the 1930s, and there, of course, she had some contacts with local residents. All this was “combined into one”, and the suspicion fell on my mother that she had betrayed Yakov Dzhugashvili.
Was she in jail for a long time?
- One and half year. She was released in 1942.
- Stalin intervened?
- Don't know. But all the accusations turned out to be completely unsubstantiated.
- Did any of your relatives suffer after Yakov Dzhugashvili was allegedly taken prisoner?
- No.
- Did your mother believe that her husband could surrender to the Germans?
These details didn't interest her. Until recently, she simply believed that dad somehow survived ... Mom died in 1967.
- Did Stalin believe that his son was in captivity?
- It was difficult to look into his soul - he was a very secretive person. What he thought about all this, I have no idea.
- But I am convinced of one thing: if Joseph Vissarionovich believed that his son had surrendered to the Germans, he would not have surrounded us with such care.
- What do you have in mind?
- I remember one episode - it was already after the war, I was then 12 years old. My grandfather came to the dacha where Svetlana Alliluyeva lived with her son and I ...
- He often came to you?
- No, very rarely. Then he already lived in isolation from all relatives. If it had been unpleasant for him to remember Yakov, he would not have told me when he saw me that I looked like my father. All the time he repeated the same thing: “It looks like, it looks like ...” At first I did not understand what he was talking about. And then Svetlana explained everything to me. He loved to caress and kiss both her and me...

In your book, you debunk the stories of a certain Uzhinsky, who claimed that he and your father were in captivity. However, its role is unclear.
- I remembered him only to once again confirm my conclusion: the role of Yakov Dzhugashvili was played by a double agent from the Abwehr. Uzhinsky's stories alerted me. They contain a lot of details, except for those that concerned the father. He even remembered the shape of the nails with which the bunks were knocked together. But as soon as it came to my father, he could not really say anything.
- Well, here is an episode about how Yakov was brought to the Hammelburg concentration camp in the spring of 1942 ... Uzhinsky recalls that when the camp guard began to apply paint to Stalin's son with paint "SU" ("Soviet Union") - on the chest, on the back, on trousers, on sleeves, on shoulders and even on a cap, - he loudly shouted: “Let him paint! The inscription "Soviet Union" does me credit! I am proud of this!"
- Well, it was not the father! Bravado, theatrical performance - it did not coincide with the character of his father so much, it was completely out of his style ... He had pride in the country, but he carried it in himself.
No, Uzhinsky did not lie. He did have an affair with some man who pretended to be my father. And he was the central figure in the large-scale provocation started by the Germans.
What do you think their goals were?
- It is clear what. First of all, of course, they tried to strike at the grandfather. Of course, this was also a well-practiced trick of Goebbels propaganda. In German leaflets it was directly written: “Stalin’s son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, senior lieutenant, battery commander of the 14th howitzer artillery regiment of the 14th armored division, surrendered to the Germans. If such a prominent officer and red commander has surrendered, then this clearly proves that any resistance of the German army is completely aimless. Therefore, end all the war, use our passes and come to us.” The passes were printed directly on the flyers.

Galina Yakovlevna, how long have you been defending "the truth of the death of Yakov Dzhugashvili"?
- Probably five years. And I always had doubts about the “delivery of Stalin’s son” as a prisoner. And very serious.
Why do I still have them? A friend of our family, General Artem Sergeev, managed to somehow communicate with almost the only surviving soldier from his father's detachment. This soldier was shell-shocked, and when he woke up, he miraculously managed to get out of the encirclement. And he told Artyom the last thing he remembered about his father: “There was a lot of blood on the senior lieutenant.”

My father died not in Nazi captivity, but in an unequal battle in mid-July 1941.
- In general, do Stalin have a lot of relatives now?
- Yes, a lot.
- How do they treat Yakov Dzhugashvili?
- Very good.
- But to these discussions: there was a son of Stalin in captivity - he was not ...
- No way. In general, they don’t care ... But for me, the truth about my father is the most important thing.

In Moscow, at the age of 70, the granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, the only daughter of his eldest son Yakov, Galina Dzhugashvili, died. This sad news was announced by a relative and close friend of the deceased Tina Egnatashvili. According to her, the granddaughter of the legendary "leader of the peoples" died after a long and serious illness. In turn, in the Main Military Clinical Hospital. Burdenko added that death occurred on August 27 at 17:30.

"The amazing doctors of this hospital did everything possible to alleviate her suffering, in particular, a number of operations were performed, but the disease took its toll," Egnatashvili said. She said that negotiations are currently underway on the burial of the ashes of Galin Dzhugashvili. Most likely, Troekurovskoye cemetery will become her last refuge. It is expected that the funeral ceremony of farewell and the process of cremation will take place on Thursday, August 30. "Life has developed in such a way that I previously buried Nadia Stalina, Vasily's daughter, and now Galina has died in my arms," ​​Egnatashvili added.

"Galina Dzhugashvili really died in the Burdenko hospital, where she was being treated," the clinic representative confirmed. According to him, the woman "suffered from a severe form of cancer." “She was inoperable,” the source said. “At the Burdenko hospital, she was given pain medication to ease her condition. She died on Monday in the oncology department of the hospital.” In addition, the representative of the medical institution added that last year Dzhugashvili had already undergone an operation to remove the tumor, but it did not bring results.

We add that Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili was born in Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, defended her PhD thesis, knew French very well, worked for a long time at the Institute of World Literature, worked as a translator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. Three fiction books came out from under her pen, including the biographical story "The leader's granddaughter. Grandfather, father, Ma and others." It says, in particular, that Stalin's words from the film "Liberation" "I do not change a soldier for a field marshal," allegedly said by him in response to a proposal to exchange captured Yakov Dzhugashvili for Field Marshal Paulus, are just an invention of the screenwriter. However, the last time Galina Yakovlevna saw her father was when she was three years old, before he left for the war. After the news of the capture of Yakov Dzhugashvili by the Germans, Galina also lost her mother, a ballet dancer from Odessa, Yulia Meltzer, who was arrested.

“Stalin is my only grandfather,” Dzhugashvili noted. “I didn’t see another, from my mother’s side, he died before I was born. Stalin is my grandfather, his blood flows in me. How can I not love him? .. "

We also recall that the name of Stalin's eldest son at the beginning of this year was at the center of the discussion of historians and experts, some of whom are sure that information about is nothing more than a propaganda event of the German special services. The first of the scientists to voice this version was Sergey Devyatov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, at a round table held in April dedicated to the declassification of materials from the archives of the FSB of the Russian Federation. Galina Dzhugashvili herself, for the last five years of her life, was engaged in just defending the good memory of her father. She disputed the official version of the capture of Yakov Dzhugashvili and claimed that all ten photographs released by the Germans in support of this were "made by photomontage." This whole story is "a large-scale provocation started by the Germans who tried to strike at my grandfather," Stalin's granddaughter claimed in her last interview.

Stalin's son, senior lieutenant of the Red Army Yakov Dzhugashvili, was not in German captivity.

HITLER never asked the "leader of the peoples" to exchange Field Marshal Paulus for his son. The harsh phrase of Stalin, which struck with its cruelty: "I do not change a soldier for a field marshal!" - just a replica from the feature film "Liberation".

MANY versions that have appeared recently refute the official data on the death of Stalin's son in German captivity. Russian forensic experts prove that tons of German leaflets with photographs of Yakov Dzhugashvili are fake.

Abwehr provocation

POSSIBLE, Senior Artillery Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili died in an unequal battle in mid-July 1941, or he was wounded and captured and died there soon, and later Berlin gave another person for Yakov Dzhugashvili. It could be a double agent of the German military intelligence Abwehr.

According to the official version, Yakov Dzhugashvili went through six fascist concentration camps and was allegedly in one of them with the famous general Karbyshev.

The family of Galina Yakovlevna lives in the former house of the NKVD, literally a kilometer from the Kremlin. A very modest three-room apartment, the walls of which are decorated with works by Selim's son, an artist. On the shelf with books is a small photograph of his grandfather - Stalin. Landlady - petite beautiful woman with a chiseled figure, clearly inherited from her mother, ballet dancer Yulia Meltzer from Odessa. IN long dress, with silver rings and bracelets on her hands, Galina Dzhugashvili resembles a Georgian princess.

Galina Yakovlevna graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, defended her Ph.D. thesis, knows French very well and worked for a long time at the Institute of World Literature, a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. Now she is retired. And in a few hours of conversation, she never complained about life, although her pension and the pension of her son, who has been disabled since childhood, barely amount to 5.5 thousand rubles in total.

Yakov's daughter, Stalin's granddaughter Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili tells about the truth and myths of her father's death.

Galina Yakovlevna, do you remember your father?

I remember though the last time I saw him was three year old. I still miss him. If my father were alive, my life would have turned out differently. He could, I know for sure, teach me a lot, which, with all her desire, my mother could not do.

Man on a wire

FROM DIFFERENT sources it is known that the Nazis wanted to publicly execute Yakov Dzhugashvili - to quarter it at the sight of cameras and send the film to Stalin. And, allegedly having learned about it, your father went on a forced suicide - threw himself on a barbed wire?

This is the next version. There are differences in the two photographs "Man on a wire": in German - a corpse in rough tarpaulin boots, on the other, which fell into the hands of the Americans and was transferred 20 years after the end of the war, a brand new officer's boot shines brightly in the sun. The face is not visible. Why is it my father? It could have been anyone, but I still felt like an electric shock from this photo.

This photo is where my doubts began. I trust my inner instinct. I believe in my heart that my father was not a neurasthenic and suicidal.

There is another version: your father allegedly escaped from captivity to the United States or Canada and even after the war helped you and your mother financially.

No! And once again no. In the West, money was made on the name of Stalin, especially after the cult of personality was debunked in the Soviet Union. In one of the Georgian tabloid newspapers, there was even a story that Hitler once called the pope to him and sympathized with him for the heartlessness of his father, Stalin, towards him. It was also written there that before Eva Braun, Hitler's first wife was a Georgian. And supposedly Hitler sent a difficult prisoner of war to Iraq in memory of his first love. At the same time, Hitler allegedly hugged the pope and "shed a stingy male tear." So another version appeared: that my father got married in Iraq and I am the sister of Saddam Hussein!

There is not a single recording of Stalin's son on a tape recorder or film. None of the "protocols" bear his signature. In the protocols, the father's place of birth is Baku, and he was born in the Georgian village of Badzi. It is clear that the purpose of all "documentary" fakes is a blow to the grandfather.

After the news of the capture by the Germans of Yakov Dzhugashvili, your mother was arrested by the NKVD. How could Stalin allow this? It is said that he did not even apologize to his daughter-in-law when Yulia Dzhugashvili, completely gray-haired, left prison.

One of the reasons is a photo of dad in a leather jacket on a German leaflet. This photo could only be taken from a family album (perhaps it was stolen by German agents before the war). Do you know how the NKVD treated "enemies of the people" - officers who were taken prisoner? Stalin once again made it clear that the son and his family are no different from others. And why should he make an exception for his daughter-in-law? Mom spent a year and a half in prison: first in Moscow, then in Engels. At the same time, I never heard from her a single bad word about my grandfather.

They say that you got married with the permission of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU?

Hoshin and I have been married for 37 years, of which 7 years we have been trying to get married. My husband is from Algeria, mathematician, Ph.D., UN emergency expert. Naturally, I wanted to visit his homeland. With my surname it was impossible. It was possible through acquaintances to transfer the letter personally into the hands of Yu. Andropov. Then the KGB was in charge of everything. The chief of the Lubyanka reacted quickly, saying: "My eagles will figure it out." Andropov's "eagles" instructed the registry office to register our marriage, but on one condition: that Galina Dzhugashvili and her son would never leave the USSR.

Aren't you afraid to live with the surname Dzhugashvili? For some, Stalin is a winner, for others, a tyrant and despot who killed millions of people. He is sometimes compared to Hitler. And who is he for you?

For me, he is my grandfather. Native! I could change my last name very simply, as Svetlana did. It would be a betrayal of the grandfather and parents. Stalin is my only grandfather. I didn’t see another, from my mother’s side, he died before I was born. Stalin is my grandfather, his blood flows in me. How can I not love him?

Hello dear!
This is where we started talking about Yakov Dzhugashvili: today I propose to finish with him.
So...
Jacob went headlong from family problems to study. I had to learn a lot of new things, and then the practice is constant. First, at the depot of the Kavkazskaya station, then at the locomotive repair plant in the city of Kozlov (Michurinsk), where he was able to pass the qualification exam and get the position of a diesel engine driver. In the summer of 1932, Yakov received a long-awaited vacation and went to another Alliluyev relatives in Uryupinsk. There, in this very town on the Khoper River, Dzhugashvili met a girl who was able to win her heart. Her name was Olga Pavlovna Golysheva. Relations somehow immediately began to spin and continued (albeit remotely) even when Yakov left for Moscow. The following autumn, Olga moved in with him and entered the aviation technical school. The matter went to the wedding and the young people were even given an apartment, but ... .. the young people dispersed. Yakov, after graduating from high school, was hired as a diesel engineer at the thermal power plant of the Moscow Automobile Plant, and Olga returned to Uryupinsk. On January 10, 1936, her son Evgeny was born. He received his last name only a few years later, in childhood, passing by the metrics as Evgeny Golyshev. Olga claimed that this was the son of Jacob (most likely it was, although there are still disputes about his origin). In any case, not Svetlana Alliluyeva, not Galina - the official daughter of Yakov, never recognized him as such. Nothing is known about the reaction of the Leader of the Peoples.

Olga Golysheva

Yakov began to drink, and in some restaurant he picked up the former ballerina Yulia (Yudif) Isaakovna Meltzer. Yulia was, as they say, a “hard-boiled” woman, either twice or thrice married, and besides, a little older than Yakov. But at the same time very cute and pretty. In general, it cost nothing for her to charm and captivate him. Not even a week had passed since they met, as she moved to his apartment. And on December 11, 1935, their marriage was registered at the registry office of the Frunzensky district of Moscow. I must say that the whole family was opposed to Julia, and at best she was simply ignored. The father, however, did not interfere, being true to his word not to pay attention, although he expressed his dissatisfaction in a private conversation with Yakov's choice. On February 10, 1938, the couple had a daughter, who was named Galina

Julia Meltzer

The younger Dzhugashvili liked to work as an engineer, but the elder felt that he needed to master other areas. Yakov was ordered to prepare for exams for the evening department of the Artillery Academy. F. E. Dzerzhinsky. In the autumn of 1937, he passed these exams and was enrolled first in the evening, and then in the daytime department of the academy. He finished it just before the war - on May 9, 1941, and after receiving the rank of starley, he was assigned to Narofominsk, to the post of commander of a howitzer battery of the 14th tank division. It is easy to see that he studied for only 2.5 years, and not 4 or 5, as was customary. On June 24, his part was advanced to the Vitebsk region, where she entered into battle with the enemy. More correctly, completely and correctly, in fact, Yakov's position sounds like this: commander of the 6th artillery battery of the 14th howitzer regiment of the 14th tank division, 7th mechanized corps, 20th army. On July 4, a part was surrounded, but then something interesting begins ...

Yakov with his daughter Galina

It is officially believed that Yakov was taken prisoner in the Liozno region on July 16th. At first they did not miss him, but then they began to look seriously. They found a witness, a certain Red Army soldier Lopuridze, who said that the two of them left the encirclement with Yakov, but Yakov fell behind, said that the boots were tinder and ordered the fighter to move on, and he would catch up. Lopuridze did not see Yakov again.
A few days later, the Germans spread the news - Senior Lieutenant Dzhugashvili was in their captivity.
This is the official version. True, there is also an alternative, but more on that later.
After the first interrogations, Yakov was transferred to a camp in Hammelburg (Bavaria), from there in the spring of 1942 he was sent near Lübeck to the camp of prisoners of the Polish army, and then in January 1943 he ended up in the famous Sachsenhausen, which at various times contained quite famous prisoners like Stepan Banders for example.


The most famous "captive" photograph of Yakov Dzhugashvili

Again, according to legend, Hitler offered to exchange him for Paulus, but Stalin noted: “ I don’t change a soldier for a field marshal!"Although Svetlana Alliluyeva recalls in a slightly different way:" In the winter of 1942/1943, after Stalingrad, my father suddenly told me during one of our rare meetings: “The Germans offered me to exchange Yasha for one of their own. Will I trade with them? In war as in war!»
It is believed that Yakov died as follows: on April 14, 1943, he did not obey the order of the convoy to go to the barracks, but went to the neutral zone and rushed to the barbed wire, after which he was shot dead by a sentry. The bullet hit the head and caused instant death. The journalists of the German Magazine "Spigel" even unearthed the name of the alleged killer of Stalin's son - this is a certain SS Rottenführer Konrad Hafrich. Although the Germans opened the body of Yakov and considered that death did not even come from a shot in the head, but earlier from an electric shock.

"Work sets you free" inscription on the Sachsenhausen gate

Jacob's body was burned in the local crematorium, and the ashes were scattered to the wind. After the war, Ivan Serov himself checked these facts and seemed to agree with this version, adding that the results of the investigation revealed that Yakov behaved with dignity, did not tarnish the rank of a Soviet officer and did not cooperate with the Nazis. It seems that this can be put an end to, but there is also an alternative version of the death of Yakov Dzhugashvili.
It was once defended by Artem Sergeev, whom we will definitely talk about in the following posts. So, Artyom, who almost knew Yakov best of all, believes that he fell in battle in July 1941. And he would not surrender in captivity, under any circumstances. Plus, he emphasizes that the photos of Yakov in captivity are of very poor quality and are always taken from some strange angle. Given the success of the Germans in the field of propaganda, and the quality of their photo and video equipment, this all looks very doubtful. Sergeev believes that instead of Stalin's son, they used a person similar to him and until 1943 they tried to play a kind of game with the leadership of the USSR. But after the bluff was revealed, the false Yakov was liquidated.

Another photo of Senior Lieutenant Dzhugashvili in captivity

And I must say that I'm more likely to incline from this version, and not to the official one. Lots of inconsistencies. For example, too late the command of his corps began an active search for him. Well, of course, of course - the beginning of the war, encirclement, defeat. But, nevertheless, they knew who Senior Lieutenant Dzhugashvili was. The Red Army soldier Lopuridze was constantly confused in his testimony, spoke Russian poorly, and in general did not know who was coming with him from the encirclement until he was informed by the special officers. Again, why and why did he leave Yakov alone. And whether it was Yakov or another officer of Georgian nationality is a big question. Here's another moment - the fighter said that they buried the documents, and did not destroy them. This could be verified, and then Yakov, at his first interrogation with the Germans, said that he had destroyed the documents. The interrogation is strange. So, for example, it says that Dzhugashvili spoke 3 languages ​​- German, English and French. I never met this anywhere, but on the contrary, I read that he had no inclination to learn languages. And then - French ??? Come on…
There are still many questions that arise during the interrogation ...

Ivan Serov. 1943

Further along the camps - they transferred him from camp to camp and kept him away from everyone, practically isolated. He did not make contact with anyone. All of this is suspicious...
What about Serov's investigation, you ask? Well... after reading a bit about this man, I'm sure he was ready with whatever information the management needed. Ivan Alexandrovich was a very slippery man ... very. Yes, and the dates he got confused there. Does not fight with documents from the German side.
So for now, information about how Yakov Dzhugashvili really died is hidden by a veil of secrecy.
It remains to add that after Yakov disappeared, his wife Yulia Meltzer was taken into circulation by the competent authorities and kept in dungeons right up to 1943. After prison, she was ill for a long time and died in 1968.
Daughter Galina Yakovlevna studied at Moscow State University, where they did not want to take her for health reasons initially (she had problems with pressure), became a candidate of philological sciences and a good Arabic scholar. She married Algerian citizen Hussein bin Saad, but the family was not allowed to reunite for 20 years - they saw each other in fits and starts in the USSR until the mid-80s. In 1970, their son Selim was born. Unfortunately, the child was disabled since childhood, but is still alive. Lives in Ryazan, and he is an artist.

Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili

Galina herself received help from a certain Chinese company until the end of her life (the Chinese still respect Stalin very much) and died in 2007 from a heart attack.
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, whom the relatives themselves did not recognize as the son of Yakov, is still very active. A former colonel of the Soviet army, he constantly appears on TV screens as the main defender of the personality of I.V. Stalin, always suing someone and generally promoting himself. To know the fate of a person is such. Although he may simply see this as his purpose in life.

Evgeny Golyshev (Dzhugashvili) in his youth

Eugene has 2 sons Vissarion and Yakov. The first is a builder, lives in the USA and has 2 sons - Vasily and Joseph. The second is an artist, lives in Tbilisi.
Evgeny's mother Olga Golysheva worked as a financial unit collector in the Air Force (apparently not without the patronage of Vasily Stalin) and died forty-eight years old in 1957.
That's all dear, what I wanted to tell you about Yakov Stalin.
To be continued….
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In her book The Secret of the Leader's Family, Galina Dzhugashvili-Stalina claims that Berlin passed off a double agent from the Abwehr as her father. We publish excerpts from the book ...

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Stalin's son, senior lieutenant of the Red Army Yakov Dzhugashvili, was not in German captivity. There is every reason to believe that my father died in an unequal battle in mid-July 1941. Stalin's phrase, included in the history books: "I do not change a soldier for a field marshal!" - just an invention of the screenwriter of the film "Liberation". Hitler never offered Joseph Vissarionovich to change Field Marshal Paulus for his son. And he couldn't do it. Berlin passed off another person for Yakov Dzhugashvili: a double agent from the Abwehr...

While I was a child, I knew - Ma said about it (as the daughter of Yakov Dzhugashvili called her mother. - A.G.) - my father was missing. Later, Ma carefully explained to me: my father was captured and died in one of the concentration camps. Then Uzhinsky appeared (a man who allegedly was together with Yakov Dzhugashvili in fascist captivity. - A.G.). However, his parishes during Ma's lifetime did not cause me bewilderment: I was a ruffy teenager.

As time went. I graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University and entered the graduate school of the Institute of World Literature. In the same year, Ma died after a serious illness. Shortly after her death, I was shown a foreign magazine with a photograph of a man in a soldier's overcoat and coarse soldier's boots, hanging from a barbed wire fence. His face was hidden by a thick shadow. The inscription under the photo did not need to be translated: Yakov Stalin. It was like an electric shock. I froze, then burst into loud sobs. That same evening, it was as if someone had given me a simple, clear thought: the person in the photograph has a darkened face. Logically, it is the face that should be illuminated so that there are no doubts. Here it's the other way around. Why?

Two years later, a large article by Iona Andronov dedicated to my father appeared - a detailed account of his stay in the Sachsenhausen camp.

And again, a lull: work at the Institute of World Literature, husband, child, until Uzhinsky emerges from oblivion ... Word for word, he repeats his previous story about meeting Stalin's son, about how he, Uzhinsky, addicted him to work in camp workshop, where prisoners carved bone chess and where "Yakov learned to carve it so beautifully" that German officers lined up to receive a "souvenir" from Stalin's son. (As far as I knew, my father was never fond of woodcarving and bone carving. How could he master this rather complicated craft so quickly and successfully?) one bunk, confiding to each other "the most intimate." What exactly? Uzhinsky hardly recalls the car: “Yakov dreamed of buying a car after the war ...” (Why should a person dream of a car if he already has one? honor of this machine.)

Uzhinsky did not communicate with his father, I understood quite clearly. A month in one barracks and nothing! I ask him: “Well, did you remember families!” “Remembered,” he replies. "And what?" - "All the best!" Here are the common words again!

But here is a more serious justification for my incredulity - the testimony of Emil Zekl, a non-commissioned officer who served as a security guard in the same Hammelburg (Nedelya, No. 12, 1988): “Yakov Stalin was imprisoned alone in barrack No. 6. There he did not dare neither read nor write. At 7 in the morning I served him coffee, then took him outside for half an hour, surrounded by barbed wire. At night, his cell was closed with heavy iron bars on two doors, which were locked with two locks. How many "sons of Stalin" were there in Hammelburg? Two? One slept with Uzhinsky on the bunk, the other was kept in strict isolation behind bars and locks? Where is fiction, where is reality?

The echoes of numerous legends that have arisen in the West (French, Italian, Swiss, Yugoslav versions) reach me, in which Stalin's son miraculously escapes from German captivity either with the help of partisans or with the efforts of a beauty scout. I'm being bombarded with questions about whether I'm Saddam Hussein's brother. “According to the “Iraqi” version, compassionate Hitler sends Stalin’s son to Iraq, where he starts a family. Alas, Saddam Hussein is several years older than me, he was born before the war. What a disappointment for lovers of spicy stories!

The protocol of the interrogation of Yakov Stalin on July 18, 1941 presents his story about how he was captured: “... Our soldiers fought back to the last opportunity ... They all turned to me: “Commander! Lead us on the attack!" I led them on the attack. A heavy bombardment began, then a hurricane shelling ... I found myself alone ... then yours surrounded me from all sides ... I would have shot myself if I had discovered in time that I was completely isolated from my own.

And here is the record of the interrogation on July 19, that is, a day later. Here, the same events and, according to the same “son of Stalin”, for some unknown reason, look completely different: “... Panic arises among the soldiers, and they flee ...” The soldiers throw down their weapons, the civilian population does not want to shelter the Red Army soldiers V military uniform, and Yakov Stalin is forced to surrender ...

Even more surprising is the answer of the "son of Stalin" to a simple question - and this is recorded in the next protocol - where he was born. He names the city Baku!! But in my father's passport, which I keep, his place of birth is the village of Badzi, Georgia. Confuse a village in Rachia, a lowland region of Georgia, with the capital of Azerbaijan? Involuntarily, the thought of a carelessly, hastily composed "legend" comes to mind.

The death of the "son of Stalin" in a German concentration camp has even more conflicting versions. Iona Andronov, based on his materials, concluded that Yakov Dzhugashvili was shot by a sentry while trying to escape. Journalists S. Apt and T. Drambyan are sure of something else: Yakov Dzhugashvili committed suicide by throwing himself on a live wire “as a result of a prolonged depression.”

And here is the version of the German soldier Otto Miler and the corporal from the guards of Sachsenhausen Fischer.

Yakov Stalin is in the same block with British officers, among whom is Churchill's relative Thomas Cushing. The Germans are planning to bring discord into the USSR-Great Britain alliance, provoking the British into a quarrel with Yakov and killing him. Churchill's relative is the murderer of Stalin's son! The plan is being carried out. At night, English officers break into Yakov's cell with knives. He "with a cry for help" jumps out the window and finds himself near the fence. The sentry, reacting automatically, kills him with a point-blank shot.

However, all versions shatter into dust, if we take the testimony of Lieutenant Zelinger, commandant of the Jagerdorf concentration camp, for granted. He claims that Yakov Stalin was in his concentration camp. The serious illness of Stalin's son forced Zelinger, who was responsible for the safety of the valuable prisoner, to transfer him to the hospital, where he soon died ...

There is not a single recording of Stalin's son on a tape recorder or film. None of the "protocols" bear his signature.

In the summer of 1941, our forward positions were literally flooded with a rain of German leaflets - a captured son of Stalin among the German officers. Here he is standing in a free position, thoughtfully bowing his head to his shoulder, here he is sitting at a table in the company of Germans, pleased, smiling cheerfully. There is also a letter from him to his father: “Dear father! I am in captivity, I am healthy, I will soon be sent to one of the officer camps in Germany. Handling is good. I wish you health. Hi all. Yasha. (Surprisingly neutral tone. As if the writer is talking about something banal, everyday.) And another example of handwriting:

Yugoslav General Milutin Stefanovich, who met Stalin's son in a concentration camp, keeps a diary, which opens with "... Yakov's handwritten entry ..." Yakov Dzhugashvili, senior lieutenant, Moscow, st. Granovsky, 3, apt. 84, 20. 9. 42"

In March-May 2002, the Center for Forensic Examinations of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation conducted an examination of samples of my father's handwriting, as well as German photographic materials with his image. The conclusions are categorical:

The "Letter to Father" on the leaflets ... was not made by Dzhugashvili Yakov Iosifovich, but by another person, imitating the handwriting of Stalin's eldest son. A note on behalf of Ya. I. Dzhugashvili dated September 20, 1941 was executed not by Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili, but by another person. As for the pictures, this is a photo montage with the use of abundant retouching and the “mirror reflection” technique.

According to archival materials, according to the 7th mechanized corps (it included the father’s artillery brigade), the last battle, from which the father was not among the survivors, was given in the vicinity of the village of Kopti, Vitebsk region. One of the surviving soldiers told a friend of our family, General Artem Sergeev, about this battle: “The ammunition ran out. Went hand-to-hand. There was a lot of blood on the senior lieutenant.”

Stalin's son was an artillery officer and honestly shared the fate of fellow soldiers. At the time, it was nothing special. The sons of Khrushchev and Mikoyan also fought at the front and also died. Having learned about the death of Stalin's son - in the first year of the war, the Germans carefully looked through the documents found on the Soviet officers who died in battle - the German special services decided to falsify. Perhaps the role of Lieutenant Dzhugashvili agreed to be played by his fellow countryman, who was taken prisoner, who knew very little about the character and pre-war life of Stalin's son. Perhaps the Germans found "their prisoner" to participate in the play. The legend was compiled spontaneously, on the basis of scarce information. Hence the awkwardness of the double, his mistakes, reservations. Perhaps other measures were taken to disguise the special operation. Whether all the details will be clarified to the end is unknown. However, I hope that over time the story of my father's "captivity" will be swept aside as sheer absurdity.

PRIVATE BUSSINESS

Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili-Stalina was born in Moscow. Philologist by profession, candidate of philological sciences, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, author of three fiction books. Lives in Moscow. Married, has a son.

Alexander GAMOV.

Yesterday, the Federal Security Service issued a statement: Stalin's eldest son, Yakov, was still a prisoner of the Nazis. The historical dispute about the fate of the son of the "father of nations" has been going on for several decades. Many believed and still believe that his capture was a provocation by German intelligence. For example, the daughter of Yakov Dzhugashvili, in her newly published book, refutes the FSB.

Komsomolskaya Pravda cites arguments from both sides.

Jacob behaved in fascist camps with dignity

“I don’t change a soldier for a field marshal” - remember this phrase from Soviet history textbooks attributed to Joseph Stalin? This is how the Generalissimo allegedly answered Hitler's offer to exchange his captured son Yakov Dzhugashvili for Paulus captured in Stalingrad. According to the legend... Or maybe it was not a legend, but for the first time this phrase was voiced in the epic film by Yuri Ozerov "Liberation". Be that as it may, but for more than 60 years, historians have been arguing not only about this statement, but also about the very fact of Yakov's being in captivity. It is known for certain that Senior Lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili commanded an artillery battery until July 1941. But near Vitebsk, he was allegedly taken prisoner and was in camps until 1943. He had to provoke the guards, who shot him while trying to escape.

Yesterday this was officially confirmed by Vasily KHRISTOFOROV, Head of the Registration and Archival Collections Department of the FSB of Russia.

In the archives of the FSB of Russia there is enough documentary evidence that the son of Joseph Stalin, Yakov Dzhugashvili, was indeed in German captivity, he told reporters. - Everyone who was in fascist captivity together with Yakov was found and interrogated after the war. They showed that the son of Dzhugashvili behaved with dignity. But the Germans recorded three-hour interrogations with him, and then edited them with scissors. It turned out that Yakov was ready to work for Germany.

What kind of evidence, Vasily Khristoforov did not specify. However, as it became known to KP, among the documents, for example, there are protocols of interrogations of the former commander of a special information service company under the commander of the IV German Army, Major Walter Reuschle. He confirmed that the conversations with Yakov Dzhugashvili were recorded on tape. The archive also included publications in the Stern magazine for the year 68, in which the curator of General Vlasov, Wilfried Shtrik-Shtrikfelt, talked about how he unsuccessfully tried to persuade the son of the "father of peoples" to treason.

There is also a personal report from Deputy Interior Minister Serov to Interior Minister Kruglov with a report of interrogations of German officers related to the case of Stalin's eldest son. Among them are an employee of the I-C department of the General Staff of the Central Group of German Forces Gensger Paul, the commander of the SS security battalion of the Totenkopf division Wegner Gustav, who guarded the Sachsenhausen camp, and the commandant of the Sachsenhausen camp Kaindl.

There are many rumors about the death of Jacob. The most common - he threw himself on a barbed wire under electric voltage. However, there is a conclusion of the forensic examination of the SS division “Dead Head”: “... On April 14, 1943, when I examined this prisoner, I stated death from a shot in the head. Death should have come immediately after this shot. The apparent cause of death: the destruction of the lower part of the brain ... "

What Vasily Khristoforov meant by worthy behavior is unknown. However, there is evidence of two co-prisoners of Yakov. Researcher Ion Andronov in his work “The Prisoner of Sachsenhausen” cites the words of Captain Uzhinsky and political officer Kashkarov: “I was already in the Hammelburg concentration camp when Yakov Dzhugashvili was brought there in the spring of 1942,” Uzhinsky recalled. - I saw how one of the camp guards approached him, holding a can of paint and a brush, and drew the letters SU (abbreviation for Soviet Union) on his chest. All of us were given such marks on the chest and on the back. And Yakov - on the chest, and on the back, and on the trousers, on the sleeves, on the shoulders and even on the cap! While the guard was waving his brush, Dzhugashvili turned to the officers crowding nearby and shouted loudly:

Let him paint! The inscription "Soviet Union" does me credit! I am proud of this!

These words made a great impression on us ... "

And Kashkarov remembered the words of General Karbyshev (the latter was executed in the Mauthausen camp in 1945): “This is an unshakable Soviet officer and patriot.”

Alexander KOTS, Alexander BOYKO

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