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Stalin's son joined the Nazi forces in Operation Barbarossa against the USSR
Doting father: Josef Stalin, pictured with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, disowned his son Yakov in 1928
A Soviet archive has yielded up one of the last secrets of World War Two that dictator Josef Stalin took to his grave – the fact his son Yakov gave himself up to Nazi forces during the 1941 invasion of his country.
The party line in Stalin’s Russia was always that Yakov Dzhugashvili,...