The BRUTAL Execution Of Stalins Son Yakov Dzhugashvili

Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. He oversaw the defeat of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and was victorious at the end of the conflict. However the Soviet Red Army faced a huge amount of losses during World War 2, with millions killed in some of the worst fighting ever seen on earth. The Battle of Stalingrad for example was one of the most brutal battles ever seen in history, however one casualty of the war was Stalin s own son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. Yakov Dzhugashvili was Stalin s eldest son, and he lived a rather tragic life. His mother died when he was young, and he was then raised by his aunt and his father was rather distant. Eventually he lived with him, before going to university before the Second World War broke out. He was rather senior in the leadership of an artillery regiment, however within a month of the Germans invading the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa he was captured. His capture was a huge victory for the Nazis who used th