[re shooting oneself]
Very amazing that he admitted (or claimed) that he couldn't achieve
this most simple of tasks.
And thank you for this series of posts.
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:14:23 -0500, Erinnerungen <ugh@bingbam.com>
wrote:
>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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