piefed.nullspace"Go on, kill the little shit, see if I care."
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Explanation: Stalin’s eldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, something of an unfavorite of his father’s, was a lieutenant captured by the Nazis during WW2. The Nazis offered a trade - Stalin’s son for a captured German field marshal. Stalin refused the trade - sensibly from an objective standpoint.
Still, Stalin’s son would die in captivity, and Stalin would later lament that he had been too hard on him while he was free.
Side thought, did he actually lament, or was that for the shows? Just curious either way. He was obviously horrible, but I’m always interested to here just how deep the damage goes.
I think it was genuine. Legitimately, a humanizing moment from Stalin - being hard on someone, then realizing, after you can no longer make amends, that you were too hard on them.
Stalin was a mass-murderer who knowingly employed a serial rapist as his chief of secret police, but appeared to be capable of caring about his family, on some level, even if he still damaged them with his emotional abuse.
It was everyone else who didn’t matter, it would seem.