"I Do Not Renounce My Father!" The Forbidden Memoirs of the Leader's Son

8 hrs. 22 min.

Language Russian

Author Vasily Stalin

Narrator Alexander Kharitonov

Description

“I won’t renounce my father!” — that’s what Vasily Stalin answered to Khrushchev’s demand to “condemn the cult of personality” and “the crimes of Stalinism.” A fighter pilot and war hero, Vasily Iosifovich was used to looking death in the face at the front—he didn’t flinch, didn’t waver, didn’t “bend” before the new power. And for his fidelity to the bright memory of his father, he paid with a “prison and a sack,” an unjust sentence, eight years of imprisonment, exile, disability, and an untimely death at age 40.

The reason for his arrest was his appeal to the Chinese embassy with information about his father’s poisoning and a request for political asylum. Probably that’s how these sensational memoirs ended up in Beijing, where they were published after Vasily Stalin’s death.

Now this book finally returns to its native reader.

This is the personal diaries of the “Stalin’s falcon,” who accepted an unequal fight for his ideals. This is the last confession of the beloved son of the Leader, who proved worthy of his great father.