Tag: Stalin: A Saint

NOVANEWS We commemorate the October Revolution with Jacob Djugashvili, great-grandson of Joseph Stalin, in our interview. by: HANEUL NA'AVI   Saint Comrade Stalin   Can you tell me about yourself, your life, and what you currently do? What messages do you try to communicate through your work? [To begin, remember that] Stalin was married twice. His first wife was a Georgian, Ekaterina Semenovna Svanidze, and in 1907, they gave a birth to a son—Yakov. That same year, she died of typhus. Yakov would later start a relationship with Olga Pavlovna Golysheva, however, they never officially married. They then gave a birth to a son—Evgeniy—my father. During [World War II], the USSR opened the Suvorovsk Military and Hakhimov Naval Schools, which recruited the orphaned children of soldiers...