Death of Stalin's son in Nazi concentration camp

Death of Stalin's son in Nazi concentration camp - Yakov Dzhugashvili

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Yakov Dzhugashvili was born on the 31st of March 1907 in Baji, Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire. His mother, Kato Svanidze, was the first wife of Joseph Stalin and they married in 1906 when Stalin was still rising in the ranks of the Bolshevik party. Svanidze was very devout and insisted on a religious wedding in a church, which the atheist Stalin accepted. Svanidze worshipped her husband like a demigod, found him charming and was fascinated by his intellect. Stalin would later in life describe Svanidze as follows: "she was very sweet and beautiful, she melted my heart''.
A few months after Yakov's birth, Stalin was involved in a high-profile bank robbery, and the three of them fled from Georgia to Baku, Azerbaijan, to avoid arrest. Stalin was frequently away from home, leaving Svanidze alone in a place where she did not know many people. The stress of worrying about Stalin, as well as the warm climate took a toll on her health, and Svanidze soon fell ill. Her family invited her to move back to Racha, Georgia, which has a much milder climate, to recover and be with people she knew, but Svanidze was reluctant to abandon her husband. Stalin was concerned about her health and decided to bring her back to her family in Tbilisi, Georgia. However, on the 13-hour journey back to Georgia, Svanidze drank some contaminated water, and contracted typhus. She died on 5 December 1907, three weeks after her return to Tbilisi. Stalin was devastated by the death of his wife and at the funeral he allegedly said "This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity." He was so overwhelmed with grief that that his comrades took his gun away from him. During the funeral, Stalin threw himself into her grave, and had to be dragged out. After the funeral he left Georgia and returned to Azerbaijan abandoning the 8-month-old Yakov to be raised by his mother's relatives. Stalin would not return to visit his son for several years and Yakov would spend the next fourteen years being raised by his aunts.
When the 14 year old Yakov was brought to Moscow in 1921 to live with Stalin, he found out that his father had remarried with his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Yakov's half-siblings, Vasily and Svetlana were born after he moved. In the beginning Yakov struggled to settle in Moscow because he did not understand Russian and his relationship with his father was strained. Stalin physically and emotionally abused his son, and he even forbade him from changing his last name to Stalin. It is believed that Stalin hated Yakov because he resembled his mother, which was one of the happier times in Stalin's life. However, Yakov, a kind individual, was close to his half-siblings, as well as his step-mother Nadezhda Alliluyeva, who was only six years older than him.
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@KohalaLover 10 ай бұрын

Poor Yalov. What a miserable father he had in Stalin. Losing his mother so young and having a cruel father takes it’s toll. You can see how sad Yakov was in his photos. It is horrid to live without love. Happy he remarried and had a child. Thank you World History. Thank you for your narrator too; he is marvelous.

@redjirachi1 10 ай бұрын

Stalin learned nothing from how he was treated by his own dad

@djstarboii 8 ай бұрын

It's funny you said that because I get to realize most kids that grew up with parents who had money especially power raised their kids solely on fear no love!!

@GG-py9vp 10 ай бұрын

Poor Yakov - Stalin loved his mother so much yet rejected her son. Strange.

@dennisyoung4631 10 ай бұрын

He didn’t measure up?

@GhettoFabulous99 9 ай бұрын

That’s what narcissists do.

@johnbookjans5884 9 ай бұрын

I believe what Stalin loved was not the mother but rather, how the mother made him feel about himself. These are two different things completely.

@GhettoFabulous99 9 ай бұрын

@@johnbookjans5884 spot on textbook narcissistic behavior.

@TheNelster72 9 ай бұрын

@@GhettoFabulous99And how would that have looked to the Soviet soldiers resisting the Nazis?

@anitamaree9121 10 ай бұрын

Yakov was a beautiful person, unlike his father. RIP

@georgebrown8312 10 ай бұрын

What a shame that Yakov Dzhugashvili was treated as though he did not matter to his father, and that he died so young by suicide. Thank you for this eye-opening video.

@redjirachi1 10 ай бұрын

A reminder he's not just a bad person on the grandiose scale but also on the scale of lousy people you'll have to deal with at some point

@williesnyder2899 10 ай бұрын

Stalin’s first wife did not abandon her husband, but he abandoned their son -

@ArmandoRodriguezzz737 7 ай бұрын

And he loved her sooo much

@GreatWhiteShark75 10 ай бұрын

This may sound corny, but if I get the chance to go to Heaven, I want to ask God if Yakov is with him. This guy was not evil, unlike his Bastard of a Father.

@anablackwood6141 10 ай бұрын

It's not corny at all. I have SO many questions for God myself. I often wonder how such nice people come from horrible parents (perhaps it's that they don't want others to feel the way they feel) and how sometimes horrible people come from really nice parents.

@user-zx5dl7bn6r 7 ай бұрын

From G.K. Zhukov's book "Memories and Reflections": On the way back, I asked: - Comrade Stalin, I have long wanted to know about your son Yakov. Is there any information about his fate? He did not answer this question immediately. After walking a good hundred steps, he said in a muffled voice: "Yakov will not get out of captivity. The murderers will shoot him. According to the inquiries, they keep him isolated from other prisoners of war and agitate for treason. After a moment's silence, he added firmly: "No, Yakov would prefer any death to treason." Sitting at the table, I. V. Stalin was silent for a long time, not touching his food. It was felt that he was worried about his son. Then, as if continuing his reflections, he said bitterly: "What a hard war. How many lives she took away from our people. Apparently, we will have few families left who have not lost their loved ones... Only Soviet people, hardened in the struggle, strong in spirit, and educated by the Communist Party, could endure such trials.

@raptorhacker599 3 ай бұрын

@@user-zx5dl7bn6r wow sheds some light on how stalin was still human

@Hogan231 10 ай бұрын

He left his own son to died.

@StephenLuke 10 ай бұрын

Exactly!!!

@TheDigitalApple 10 ай бұрын

Not really surprising, since Stalin showed such contempt over those he ruled it makes sense he showed the same contempt towards his own family.

@StephenLuke 10 ай бұрын

@@TheDigitalApple He even lost his second wife by suicide in 1932, he never remarried.

@ladycplum 10 ай бұрын

Another one to show Stalin wasn't any better than Hitler. Poor Yakov. I don't understand why you don't have more subscribers, you are one of the best KZbinrs when it comes to focusing on WWII, your videos are well-put together and your pronunciation is immaculate.

@user-zx5dl7bn6r 7 ай бұрын

But everything is a little different. Stalin did not hate Yakov, although he could insult and humiliate him. But 90% of the time he simply did not see his father because of the large amount of work with Stalin. Then Yakov decided to get married, but Stalin was enraged and saddened Yakov tries to commit suicide. Contrary to the theory from this video, Stalin does not say "you can't even get where you need to go", he simply ignores this and ceases to somehow control Yakov's life, but when he moved to Leningrad, by his decree, he gave him a large and spacious apartment and found a good job. Then he insisted that Yakov make a military career, because the leader of the USSR always dreamed that his children would be military. After graduating from the school for gunners, he goes to war (according to one version, Stalin insisted on this, according to another, it was the decision of Yakov himself. But I believe the first one more), there he is captured while trying to escape from the environment, refuses to cooperate in captivity and dies while trying to escape from a concentration Camp.

@counqerland5490 2 ай бұрын

@@user-zx5dl7bn6r why are you riding stalin

@johnridgeway5265 10 ай бұрын

Yakov truly born to the wrong man.

@StephenLuke 10 ай бұрын

RIP Yakov Dzhugashvili (1907-1943)

@jacksonreilly3441 10 ай бұрын

Yakov was truly a tragic figure. Mistreated and ababdoned by his bloodthirsty bolshevik father then suffeing the rejection of his only son by Stalin. While a prisoner in the Reich, he must have concluded that life was no longer worth living. There should be many tears shed for Yakov.

@js70371 10 ай бұрын

Stalin was truly a monstrous human being. It was self admittedly the death of Yakov’s mother which led to “the death in me of all that is warm in feelings towards others” as he himself said. Family meant very little to him and he often treated them as, or more cruelly than even his most bitter enemies.

@tttyuhbbb9823 10 ай бұрын

Delete "human"...

@dying101666 10 ай бұрын

@@tttyuhbbb9823 lol... he was probably worse than hitler.

@user-tw8zx6wn9d 10 ай бұрын

He signed a pact with Hitler before start of the war called the Axis

@user-zx5dl7bn6r 7 ай бұрын

@@user-tw8zx6wn9dare u serious????

@user-zx5dl7bn6r 7 ай бұрын

@@user-tw8zx6wn9dare u serious?

@a.p.3004 9 ай бұрын

Yiakov was in the artillery and not in the tank forces. Stalin refused to exchange him for Field Marshall Von Paulus, and although a hard decision, it was correct. However as mentioned in the video, there were several attempts to rescue him. Being that he was kept with four other British prisoners, and the camp captured by the Brits, something smells bad here.

@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY 10 ай бұрын

Yakov was indeed betrayed by the Fates.

@claudermiller 9 ай бұрын

The fate named Josef Stalin.

@UkrainoTV 9 ай бұрын

@@claudermillerA loving father 😂 He also killed his own wife.

@galenwest9449 10 ай бұрын

Any tears shed? (None for Stalin, Sr. of course.)

@StephenLuke 10 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@anablackwood6141 10 ай бұрын

I shed tears for Yakov. I wish I could hug him.

@StephenLuke 10 ай бұрын

@@anablackwood6141 But we all know we will never shed tears to that no-good Soviet tyrant in which he’s called “Joseph Stalin”.

@kevinhensley4643 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@idontgiveafaboutyou 8 ай бұрын

All this proves is how much of a narcissistic monster his father was

@Игорьсуздальский 5 ай бұрын

No, he was a leader at first

@sunnyd8585 10 ай бұрын

I think all Soviet soldiers will take a Bushido mentality towards surrendering after hearing that their comrades got murdered while unarmed.

@felipescheuermann1736 9 ай бұрын

Well, considering what Soviets did to Hitler nephew... kid was tortured to death, and Stalin son only died *after* Stalin refused to exchange Yakov for other Hitler nephew.

@hl232 9 ай бұрын

First he is a solider, then he’s his father’s boy. Many young men died for motherland, what’s the difference between a leader’s son and other peoples’ sons? The children of elites that refuse to fight for their countries should be shameful!

@MrEjidorie 9 ай бұрын

Stalin had a callous attitiude not only against people in the Soviet Union but also against his own son. Stalin had no human heart.

@ole5539 9 ай бұрын

Marxism is steeped in atheism; God is love, if there is no God the conclusion is quite easily accommodated.

@Игорьсуздальский 5 ай бұрын

That's why USSR won the war, not Brits or Americans

@MrEjidorie 5 ай бұрын

@@Игорьсуздальский Dictators with no human hearts could be villains in peace time, but they could be heroes in war time.

@raptorhacker599 3 ай бұрын

@@MrEjidorie wars brought by their own actions

@mollyy.mollyy 9 ай бұрын

Amazing video holy

@vivdoolan6846 9 ай бұрын

The cadence of the narrator is so strange its offputting. It's a shame as the content is good

@TheDigitalApple 10 ай бұрын

Stalin was truly father of the year in 1943.

@tttyuhbbb9823 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@prodigalpriest 10 ай бұрын

So was Mao Zedong.

@tammiestout4126 10 ай бұрын

So horrible to have such a father

@MarciaBaker1205 10 ай бұрын

He didn't stand a chance.

@762459 9 ай бұрын

That's sad, this guy has been born in so much pain.

@onthekippaxsince75 9 ай бұрын

@762459 the same as you supporting that pile of dog💩. MCFC Treble Champions!

@lillianmcgrew217 10 ай бұрын

This is so sad 😔

@Ron13579 10 ай бұрын

My father was father of the year 1943. That's when I was born. My mother was mother of the same year.

@audreyricci6383 10 ай бұрын

What is up with the speeded up speech?

@wombatwilly1002 10 ай бұрын

Did he really throw himself on the fence or did the British prisoners throw him on it?

@LoyalHistoryBuff 10 ай бұрын

As he was Soviet POW, it is very unlikely that there was British POWs in same camp as him, given that Nazi government kept Western Allied POWs in the separate camps from Soviet POWs.

@wombatwilly1002 10 ай бұрын

@@LoyalHistoryBuff I'm pretty sure there were British pow's in with him.He got into arguments with them frequently.

@LoyalHistoryBuff 10 ай бұрын

⁠@@wombatwilly1002 I doubt it. Remember that Nazi government was actively killing the Soviets off, something they didn’t do with the Western Allies(except for Poland). Of course, that wouldn’t be the case if the Western Allied soldiers they captured were Jews but still.

@peterherard8207 8 ай бұрын

@@wombatwilly1002probably being instigated by that instigator ,Newkirk

@josepharmstrong5525 9 ай бұрын

How do they get those photos to look like they were taken today

@rodgerpiercearchitect 10 ай бұрын

…great presentation, entertaining and edifying (…hope you got your facts right)

@MissEnglish123 9 ай бұрын

He really does favor his mother 😢😢😢

@TheRetirednavy92 10 ай бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

@cezar211091 4 ай бұрын

Yakov they say, was a kind man and a very different man from his father.

@ThermSupern 9 ай бұрын

Stalin hated Georgians, even his son))) Georgians never became truly soviets thats why stalin hated them

@peatyporkstar3948 10 ай бұрын

i like your docs because you sound like mr humphries ARE YOU FREE!

@RedLanternFrank 10 ай бұрын

What about the tears shed or not shed?

@jays5186 9 ай бұрын

An angel

@BrianLamar-es3my Ай бұрын

Probably till the day he died his first wife haunted him to his death she probably told him I'm going to make you feel something for one last time he said I should have treated our firstborn son with a bit of kindness and tenderness However what you didn't know was Yakov told his dad don't give Hitler the the satisfaction however after all of that Stalin begin to soften his says towards his son after yakov's first born child died and like his dad he became cold and ruthless he just didn't get far enough ahead to become like him to become the new ruler of russia but even Stalin was afraid of how Yakov became because Yakov was soon spiraling into wanting to become more brutal and ruthless he even told yaakov that he was just like him a Man of steel the proper towards the end Stalin was heartbroken that his son was killed and that he never believed his son committed suicide he believed his son tried to make a grand escape and almost succeeded until he was unjustly killed he was going to make Hitler pay truth be told Stalin have a lovehate for his son because he was going to make his son succeed him when he was gone and unfortunately that never happened so apparently stalin did love his son in his own way

@rosesprog1722 10 ай бұрын

Here, I blame the Germans, they could have kept him alive if they wanted to, he even might have found a way to be useful, bad choice this time Hitler, bad choice.

@muhammadabdulsalam602 10 ай бұрын

Stalin is a true hero imaging having a dad like him, when trying to commit suicide and failed and telling u dat u aren't even good at this 😢💔😔

@davidhoward4715 10 ай бұрын

I remember when trolls had some imagination and wit. Now you’re just swivel-eyed crackpots peeing in alleyways and shouting at the wind.

@dennisyoung4631 10 ай бұрын

“You can’t do *anything* right, dummy,” he said.

@LargeBasstafarian 10 ай бұрын

Awarded him over 20 years after his death, but secretly.. only in Russia

@rosesprog1722 10 ай бұрын

I hope one day I won't have to do this anymore, until then... Stalin hed refused to sign the Geneva conventions so the Red Army was not restricted, they could be brutal without committing any crime, and they were as to the partisans, they didn't even know such rules existed, being their prisoner was much worse trhan being dead. Of course, no rules also meant no protection, so the Germans: Not guilty! As to the POWs, Germany already being on the verge of starvation, Hitler, well, not him him, contacted Stalin and told him to send food for the Soviet prisoners, that Germany didn't have enough. Stalin, well, not him him, responded: "There are no such prisoners, Soviet soldiers are either fighting at the front, or they are dead, goodbye!" And so once again, the little man died because his leader had incurable mental deficiencies, unexpressed emotions and a total inability to establish meaningful relationships and proper communication channels!

@bartman9400 9 ай бұрын

Stalin always the loving father huh

@hello-sc3ll 9 ай бұрын

Watch

@georgeperson5822 3 ай бұрын

Yakov had the face Stalin should have wanted and was able to seduce attractive women.... at least Stalin can say , my son's image was appealing to women .