Daddy trouble

The new historical series "The Son of the Father of the Peoples", shown on the first channel, draws us, as it has already been done, of the beautiful Soviet era, in which there was a good grandfather and unfortunate father Joseph Stalin, and he has a bad son Vasily. Also, in general, a kind person who has the concept of partnership and honor, but he was completely corrupted by the smell of others who see only the son of a leader in him. And Vasily himself is still tormented by the fact that he himself as a person is not perceived. Therefore, it falls every now and then into binges, and Buen becomes into hops.

Stalin, on the other hand, appears to be a wise lord, who, due to employment by state affairs, simply does not have time left to engage in raising his son. And his instructions to be more built with Vasily, as shown correctly in the film, remained empty sound: who, in fact, could take a chance to seriously punish his father of the peoples! But about how and why Stalin produced his son at the age of 25 in the major general, and in 26-in Lieutenant General, nothing is said in the series. For severity, it somehow does not look like and looks just like the promotion of Vasily along the career ladder bypassing the older ones in age and the merits of aviation commanders. Even Russian emperors and those did not allow their sons to grow in the ranks with such Stakhanov pace.

Stalin is not shown for criminal cases. At the same time, in every possible way emphasizes how his associates were fierce. It is reported, in particular, that Khrushchev was atrocious in Ukraine, and then dumped everything on the Stalin's "shooting lists". As if Nikita Sergeyevich actually shot people in Moscow and Ukraine without the order of Joseph Vissarionovich and not within the framework of Stalinist politics! Back in the film, the bike is repeated about Budyonny, who allegedly in the 37th, with the help of a machine gun, fought back from the people of Yezhov, and then found protection with Stalin. They are trying to assure us that Yezhov would dare to arrest Budyonny without a Stalin order. One, however, is still a sin behind Stalin in the film, but it is so anecdotal that it is seriously difficult to perceive. Wolf Messing, who migrated from the series of the same name to the series about Vasily Stalin, warns Stalin that Vasily should not fly to a plane with a hockey team of the Air Force, who was in no case. And Stalin leaves his son in Moscow. But the Air Force team allowed to fly with this plane. But not from congenital anthroppendicism, but from the desire to experimentally find out whether the prophecy of Messing will come true. There is nothing to say that Stalin's meetings with Messing are a myth created by Messing himself, and the prophecies of Messing are akin to the prophecies of Nostradamus and Wanga, and their correlation with specific events was completely invented by himself and his fans.

Also, a more or less pretty character is shown by Beria, whom the current Stalinists strongly respect for the creation of atomic and hydrogen bombs. In the film of all members of the Politburo, it is Lavrenty Pavlovich who sympathizes with Vasily and arrests him only when he provokes his arrest with his defiant hooligan behavior, and only obeying the opinion of most members of the Politburo. In the film, Beria says that he released more people than he planted, which is a real truth. But he does not say how many he shot (and the Poles in Katyn are only a few of them).

Malevkov and especially Khrushchev act as the main persecutors of Vasily and the first Soviet villains, for whom the moral destruction of Vasily is a continuation of the public condemnation of his father, which, again, cannot forgive the Stalinists. Of course, both Khrushchev and Malenkov were villains, but next to Stalin they are only the head of the executioner.

More or less original in the film about Vasily Stalin, the version that if his father was killed, then not Beria, but rather Khrushchev and Malenkov. Meanwhile, it is well known that the latter before Stalin's death was close to Beria, and not with Khrushchev. No convincing evidence in favor of the fact that Stalin could be killed at all, is not given, and a number of circumstances associated with his death are clearly distorted. So, the long-term chief of the Stalinist guard Nikolai Vlasik, in the film acting as a guardian of Vasily, was actually arrested in December 1952, and in January 1953 he was exiled to Krasnoyarsk, from where he was returned only after Stalin's death. So he could not call Vasily on the eve of his father’s death, hinting that they could kill him.

If we talk about other inaccuracies, you can see that Beria in 1944 wears some fantastic Marshal shoulder straps with a blue Chekist zigzag. Obviously, according to the authors, these are epaulettes of the General Commissioner of State Security, but there were no one in nature.

It seems that either the authors of the film do not know the real biography of Vasily Stalin, or they simply do not need facts, because they would only ruin a beautiful fairy tale about the good Generalissimus and his unhappy son. Having watched the series, the viewer will remain in full confidence that Vasily had only two children - from Galina Bourdon. In fact, he had two more native children from Ekaterina Tymoshenko, and also a dawn girl - the daughter of Capitolina Vasilyeva.

In the film, the wives of Vasily are clearly divided into two good (Bourdon and Vasiliev) and one evil (Tymoshenko). All the negative qualities of Tymoshenko are associated with her Caucasian origin. Meanwhile, we should not forget that she had to survive the arrest of her mother and stepfather and the children's house of the NKVD at the age of 14, from where she was taken by her father - the future marshal. The authors of the film Catherine were required as an evil stepmother, and it was somehow embarrassed to admit that she had two of her children, also with a tragic fate. In fact, Vasily’s novels with Tymoshenko and Vasilyeva did not develop sequentially, but in parallel, and after a break with Capitoline, he returned to Katya, albeit for a short time. There is not a word about the fourth wife of Vasily, Maria Nusberg.

The last years of the hero of the series, after his first release from prison, are given crumpled and inaccurately. Nothing is said about Basil’s return to prison in 1960 after visiting the China Embassy and attempts to leave for China, and about life in Kazan - only a few words in the final ordinance commentary. Vasily’s sports hobbies are given political meaning. In a documentary, complementing the series, it is completely seriously claimed that Stalin instructed his son after the war to engage in the development of sports in order to captivate the children of the Soviet elite with hockey, football, motorcycle races, etc., if only they would forget to think about politics. In the series, it is more likely to make a version that Joseph Vissarionovich encouraged Vasily's sports philanthropic to distract him from politics and politicians who may try to use it for all kinds of intrigues.

But Generalissimus is unlikely to have such deep sports and political calculations. Stalin knew the price of his youngest son and perfectly understood that he was not suitable for the role of the successor. Although, of course, Joseph Vissarionovich did not suggest how severe his heirs would be with his son. The political component in Vasily's sports hobbies was certainly, but somewhat different. He managed to convince his father that Soviet athletes should go to the international arena in order to maintain the country's prestige, and that the USSR team should be allowed to participate in the 1952 Olympics. And Stalin gave his son a “green light” to prepare actually professional athletes and the creation of appropriate infrastructure.

But the relative failure of the Soviet Olympians, who failed to win in an unofficial team standings, led to the disgrace of Vasily, who was removed from the post of commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District in August 1952 and sent to study at the Academy of the General Staff (where he, by the way, never appeared). And after the death of his father, he remembered the uncontrolled expenses on sports, which turned into an indictment for an 8-year prison term. By the way, in 2002, the prosecutor’s office canceled the verdict of 1955 only in relation to political, but not economic articles. Maybe today, when professional sport in our country is completely rehabilitated, it is time to rehabilitate Vasily Stalin?