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Vasily Stalin

1921 - 1962

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Vasily Iosifovich Stalin Dzhugashvili (Georgian: ვასილი იოსების ძე სტალინი ჯუღაშვილი, Russian: Василий Иосифович Сталин Джугашвили; 21 March 1921 – 19 March 1962) was the youngest son of Joseph Stalin, born from his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. He joined the Air Force when Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, in 1941. After the war, he held a few command posts, one of them being Commander of the Air Forces of the Moscow Military District in 1948. After his father died in 1953, Vasily lost his authority and succumbed to severe alcohol dependency. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Stalin is the 298th most popular military personnel (down from 247th in 2019), the 248th most popular biography from Russia (down from 204th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. He is most famous for his purges, the forced collectivization of agriculture, and the Great Terror.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vasily Stalin ranks 298 out of 2,058. Before him are Maurice Benyovszky, Reinhard Gehlen, Svetozar Boroević, Qutayba ibn Muslim, Yermak Timofeyevich, and François Achille Bazaine. After him are Ernest King, Tōgō Heihachirō, Ivan Bagramyan, Andranik, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, and Baji Rao I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Vasily Stalin ranks 44. Before him are Robert Bruce Merrifield, Amin al-Hafiz, Satyajit Ray, Deborah Kerr, Jane Russell, and Marija Gimbutas. After him are Jean-Marie Balestre, Alida Valli, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Georges Brassens, Kenneth Arrow, and James Jones. Among people deceased in 1962, Vasily Stalin ranks 22. Before him are Hans Luther, Auguste Piccard, René Coty, Gabriele Münter, Fritz Kreisler, and Michael Curtiz. After him are Natalia Goncharova, Bruno Walter, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Charles Laughton, Alfred Cortot, and Ronald Fisher.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Stalin ranks 248 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Bruno Taut (1880), Léon Theremin (1896), Alexander Rodchenko (1891), and Yermak Timofeyevich (1532). After him are Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Sergey Shoygu (1955), Gennady Yanayev (1937), and Anastasia Romanovna (1530).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Vasily Stalin ranks 18. Before him are Felix Steiner (1896), Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), and Yermak Timofeyevich (1532). After him are Vasily Blyukher (1889), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), and Dmitry Yazov (1924).

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