"Go and fight": how the fate of the children of Stalin, Mussolini and Franco turned out
To be born into the family of a famous person is both a great success and a cross that you have to bear. Each offspring, of course, has its own attitude to its own status. Many people enjoy it, others would gladly give up such a fate. That's probably what the children of bloody dictators would say about themselves.
Yakov Dzhugashvili, son of Joseph Stalin
Ekaterina Svanidze, the first wife of Joseph Stalin, died of typhus six months after the birth of her son in 1907. Despite the fact that Yakov's father was in good health, the boy grew up almost like an orphan. Stalin was always on the road on party business and provided only material support. The child was raised by relatives on the maternal side.
Yakov Dzhugashvili (right) with Stalin's security chief Nikolai Vlasik
Such a life led Yakov to attempt suicide. As a result, he ended up in the hospital, where his father never visited him. I only wrote a note to my wife: "Tell Yasha from me that he acted like a bully and a blackmailer, with whom I have nothing more in common and cannot have anything more in common." But in the future, their relationship has relatively normalized.
At the very beginning of the war, Yakov, who had just graduated from the artillery academy, was called to the front. After phoning his father before leaving, he heard from him only a brief: "Go and fight!" And three weeks later Yakov was captured. There, the Nazis used his name to the maximum for propaganda. Stalin flatly refused to exchange his son for one of the captured Germans, and in 1943, in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Yakov died by throwing himself on a live wire fence.
German propaganda leaflet
Carmen Franco, daughter of Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco was very happy about the appearance of his daughter Carmen, but he treated her not much milder than the whole of Spain, which he ruled until his death in 1975. Franco sought to raise a true lady and kept her in a tight grip. In those rare moments when he had free time from building a military career.
Edda Mussolini, daughter of Benito Mussolini
But Benito Mussolini's daughter did not receive her father's blessing to marry her chosen one, an industrialist of Jewish nationality. Soon, in 1930, the girl, at the insistence of her parent, married Count Galeazzo Ciano, an associate of Mussolini.
Edda Mussolini with her father as a child
After the end of the war, homesickness forced Edda to return to Italy. She was immediately charged with aiding the fascists and imprisoned. She denied everything, but still spent two years in exile. In the remaining years of her life, Edda tried not to remember whose blood flows in her veins.
Jean Marie Loret, presumably Hitler's son
Hitler and his wife Eva Braun, as is known, had no children. But there is a version that, being a simple soldier on the fields of the First World War, Hitler had a short-term affair with a Frenchwoman, as a result of which a boy Jean Marie was born.
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