Photo of Stalin's son soon after capture.
Yakov joined the Red Army at the outbreak of war in the East in June
1941, serving as a lieutenant in the artillery. On the first day of
month of the Nazi invasion, Yakov was captured and taken prisoner
(pictured). Stalin considered all prisoners as traitors to the
Certainly Yakov, by all accounts, felt that he had failed his father.
Under interrogation, he admitted that he had tried to shoot himself.
His father probably would have preferred it if he had
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