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Russian Tsar Joseph Stalin

chervonec_001: Interesting facts about Stalin:

Joseph Vissarionovich studied together with one of the great occultists of his time - Gurdjieff, who said that with such a horoscope he would never become a leader. And Stalin changed his date of birth from 18 to 21 December.

The first official place of work of the twenty-year-old Stalin was the Tiflis Observatory, in which he was responsible for recording the amount of precipitation and atmospheric pressure.

He hated sex scenes in movies - it infuriated him.

He loved to sing Russian folk songs during feasts.

He hated atheistic literature, called it “anti-religious waste paper”.

He spoke Georgian, Russian, Ancient Greek, and also knew Church Slavonic well since the seminary. According to some researchers, he knew English and German, the notes he left in the books were in Hungarian and French.

He understood Armenian and Ossetian languages. Trotsky asserted in an interview that "Stalin knows neither foreign languages, nor foreign life."

He wrote documents, letters, and other papers extremely competently, which was noted by many witnesses.

Due to a childhood hand injury, he was declared unfit for military service in 1916.

I drank only Tsinandali and Teliani wines. Sometimes he drank brandy, did not drink vodka at all.

Stalin was very fond of joking in everyday life. He loved to draw.

Most of the recreation parks in the USSR were built at the initiative of Stalin.

He did not support Lenin's famous April Theses (in particular, his idea of \u200b\u200btransforming the bourgeois-democratic revolution into a socialist revolution), but rather quickly changed his mind and supported Ilyich on the issues of land, war and the socialist revolution.

It was Stalin who was authorized to negotiate the surrender of the famous Kshesinskaya mansion, as well as negotiations with the soldiers and sailors of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

According to the testimony of the security officers, Stalin never took a bath - he washed in the shower, sitting in the bath on a special hanging bench.

During the first 10 years of his tenure at the top of the party, Stalin asked for resignation three times.

In 1941, the Germans captured Stalin's eldest son, Yakov. They firmly believed that they would be able to exchange the son of the leader of the USSR for the German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. Stalin refused to negotiate with them.

At the 1945 Victory Parade, the wounded dog-mine detector Dzhulbars, on Stalin's orders, was carried across Red Square in his greatcoat.

During the war, Vasily Stalin was nominated for the rank of general 12 times, but Stalin canceled the performance each time.

The list of gifts presented to him on his 70th birthday was published in newspapers from December 1949 to March 1953.

Twice recognized by the American Times magazine as the person of the year. For the first time on January 1, 1940, for the fact that he “concluded a non-aggression pact with Hitler and started the Soviet-Finnish war, as a result of which he changed the balance of power in the world political arena.” In January 1943 he was named “Person of the Year” by the same magazine again.

On the day of Stalin's death, national mourning was declared in Israel.

Before industrialization, the technical level of our country was 4 times lower than that of England, 5 times lower than Germany, 10 times lower than the United States.

During the years of the first (1929–1932) and second (1933–1937) five-year plans, many new industries emerged, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, chemistry, power engineering, and mechanical engineering made great strides.

The gross output of the entire industry of the USSR in 1937 increased almost 4 times compared to 1929, and if we compare 1913 and the year before the war, then in mechanical engineering and metalworking, gross output increased 35 times.

During the years of the pre-war five-year plans, about 9 thousand large industrial enterprises were built, a new powerful industrial base was created in the east of the country, which was so useful to us during the Great Patriotic War.

On the whole, the USSR took first place in Europe and second in the world in terms of industrial production and the technical equipment of newly built enterprises.

P.S.
By the way, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev also had a birthday on the 19th. I believe that a person also deserves Respect.

Reverse examples of the country's leaders - Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Khrushchev

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This is such a sinister and controversial figure of the twentieth century that even his real date of birth is uncertain. And the specified date is only officially registered. But I want to remember not about him, but about his double, with whom I had a chance to communicate at the end of the last century. And I often half-jokingly told my friends and acquaintances that I personally knew Comrade Stalin.

Georgy Sahakyan - for some time headed the Theater of Doubles in Moscow, but unlike the "Lenins", "Brezhnevs" and other "Yeltsins", he stood somewhat apart. Because, after all, he was an actor who embodied the image of the Leader in Soviet, and later Russian films. True, after the collapse of the USSR, he began to play Stalin mainly in comedies. In addition, he became a frequent guest at various events. For a fee, they began to invite him to presentations, television programs, and even to a rich wedding as the planted father of ... nations.

Georgy in his youth, when he grew a mustache, noticed his resemblance to the leader of the USSR. And even during the life of the dictator, despite such a dangerous similarity ("Why do we need two Stalins? Shoot them!"), He even jokingly began to portray Joseph Vissarionovich in companies.

“Friends told me, they say, Georgy, show me ...”, Sahakyan told me. - I got up, took a stance and began: "As the Russian bogeyman Gogol said ..." I did a good job. Strange, but no one reported me at that time. But to be honest, I did not portray Stalin with a mockery, but, on the contrary, was proud of my resemblance to him. He even began to take an interest in his personality and study his activities.

For many years, the Armenian Sahakyan worked in Azerbaijan as a chief engineer. He often traveled to the Soviet Union on business trips. And once in some hotel in Grozny (Chechnya), Moscow filmmakers drew attention to him and took a phone number just in case. Sahakyan soon forgot about this incident, but one day there was a call from Moscow: he was invited to play Stalin in the film Tehran-43 about the meeting of the Big Three - Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill during the war. Sahakyan took a vacation and went to Moscow, not suspecting how this incident in the 53rd year of his life would change his whole fate.

When the director of the film Vladimir Naumov saw him, he was amazed at how well the makeup was chosen and it was not even clear that it was a wig. But the fact is that Sahakyan was not even made up, he came to the director straight from the train. And today he is the only actor in world practice who played Stalin without makeup.

After the release of the film, Sahakyan vied with each other to be invited to play the Leader of all times and peoples. For ten years he combined the work of an engineer with work in the cinema. During Perestroika, when an armed conflict arose in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenians and Azerbaijanis killed each other, Sahakyan had to flee from Baku. As a refugee, he settled in Moscow and thanks to the Union of Cinematographers got a room, though ... in a women's hostel.

Throughout his life, Georgy Sahakyan played Stalin in 36 films not only in the Soviet Union, but also abroad. For example, in China, in a film about Mao Ze Tung. We can say that Stalin became his second profession. He even got into the Book of Records. The former record holder was actor Mikhail Gelovani, who played the leader in 15 films during Stalin's lifetime.

“Iosif Vissarionovich himself was small, ugly and his face was covered with pock marks,” Sahakyan said. - Gelovani was a tall handsome Georgian man. I remember him from films since childhood. True, as I later found out, he did not at all look like Stalin and they made him up for five hours. Moreover, he played a leader without a characteristic Georgian accent. Once at a Kremlin reception, Joseph Vissarionovich asked why? “And I'm not playing you,” Gelovani discouraged with his answer. “And who is it?” The leader was surprised. "Your state function!" Stalin liked the answer.

All his life Sahakyan was a non-smoker and first tried smoking on the set when he portrayed the leader smoking a pipe. Having swallowed the smoke for the first time, he almost fainted. Art requires sacrifice!

And there was also an amusing incident at Mosfilm. An episode with the participation of Stalin-Sahakyan was being filmed in the pavilion. And the fire inspector appeared very inopportunely, began to draw up an act on violation of safety measures.

The persuasion of the director, the director of the group did not help. Then the "Generalissimo" intervened. While smoking his pipe, he strictly addressed the firefighter: “Dear, do not interfere with our work. You ruined an expensive imported film. Break this act and go about your business! " The firefighter turned pale, backed away: "Excuse me, Comrade Stalin, I'm not to blame." He broke the act and quickly left the premises. This incident impressed the film crew so much that the director even described it in his memoirs.

The inspector understood that I was not a real dictator, but he was frightened anyway. He was of the old generation and still remembered the Stalinist repressions. What is the power of art! Or the power of fear of the leader of all times and peoples.

Sahakyan also collected anecdotes about his prototype: Somehow Stalin asks Lenin: How are you? "Bad, I'll die soon." "Then give the power to me!" "I cannot, Comrade Stalin, the people will not follow you." "Then, Comrade Lenin, he will follow you!"

For many years, there has never been a negative attitude towards me. Even the drunk greeted me respectfully. I also heard this: “All my relatives died in Stalin's camps. But I'm not offended by you. " They told me: "We need a ruler like Stalin, but such a kind one like you." If I were a real Stalin, I would also have camps. But ... only tourist! "

Gelovani, after playing Stalin, disappeared as an actor, because they stopped offering him other roles, because they were all smaller in value: God forbid playing a role less significant than the role of the Leader, not to mention a negative role. And if Gelovani played Stalin, so to speak, loyally, then, unlike him, Sahakyan's range is much wider - from officialdom to parody. After the collapse of the union, Georgy Sahakyan became even more in demand in the cinema and even joked: “Following the famous slogan“ Thank you Comrade Stalin for our happy childhood! ”. I can exclaim: "Thank you Comrade Stalin for my happy old age!" And I am grateful to fate that either I am like Stalin, or he is like me, - Sahakyan jokes.

However, Sahakyan also became an actor in one role and is considered the number 1 Stalin in Russian cinema. Once he was offered the role of a market merchant, but he refused with Caucasian pride, claiming in a conversation with me that even for a million he would not agree to betray the usual image of the Leader.

How do you yourself assess Stalin? - I once asked Sahakyan.

I will answer you with Churchill's words: “Stalin was an unusually complex person. He created and subjugated a huge empire. It was a man who destroyed his enemies with the hands of his own enemies. Stalin was the greatest unparalleled dictator who accepted Russia with a plow and left it with nuclear weapons. "

Blitz interview with Stalin

I jokingly asked Sahakyan to answer a few questions in the form of Stalin. He put on the generalissimo's uniform (which, by the way, was sewn for him by the Russian Ministry of Defense), pulled on his cap and lit his pipe.

How do you, Comrade Stalin, feel about the fact that you were taken out of the mausoleum?

I'm tired of lying next to Lenin. Mausoleum, this is not a hostel for you!

How did you take the fact that Stalingrad was renamed the city of Volgograd?

When the name was changed, I sent a telegram to the Kremlin: “I agree with the renaming. Joseph Volgin.

Joseph Vissarionovich, since we are drinking your favorite Kindzmarauli wine, can you say a toast?

I would like to wish that after me you could say: “Life has become better! Life has become more fun! " (J. Complete Works. Volume 13. Page 135.)

Actor Gelovani got so accustomed to the role of the leader that he even died on Stalin's birthday on December 21. When I was writing this article and decided to call Sahakyan again, I was saddened to learn that Georgy Markarovich died on July 4 of this year, that is, in the anniversary year of Comrade Stalin.

Foreigners, oddly enough, are more loyal. Thus, the British writer and physicist Charles SNOU, after working in the archives, wrote about Stalin: “He was much more educated than any of the statesmen of his day. Literally a sample of subtle English humor. "
No one has yet looked at the "father of nations" from such a side. Although there are many examples of his jokes with a double or even triple bottom.

* Once upon a time Stalin it was not the head of the USSR Writers' Union who arrived at his call Fadeevand his deputy Tikhonov.
- Where is Fadeev? Stalin asked.
- Comrade Fadeev went hunting and has not returned yet.
- We have a friend Nikolay Shvernik also loves to hunt. But he leaves on Saturday, gets drunk on Sunday, and goes to work on Monday.
After the incident of a second similar "hunt" by Fadeev, Stalin asked him directly where he disappeared.
“I was on a binge,” he answered with Bolshevik directness.
- And how many days does it usually last for you?
- Ten days, Comrade Stalin.
- Can't you, as a communist, hold this event for three or four days?

* In the first months after the end of the war, Major General Alexey Sidnevreported to Stalin on the state of affairs. Stalin looked very pleased and nodded twice in approval. Having finished the report, the commander hesitated. Stalin asked:
- Do you want to say anything else?
- Yes, I have a personal question. In Germany, I selected some things of interest to me, but they were detained at the checkpoint. If possible, I would ask you to return them to me.
- It's possible. Write the report, I will put the resolution.
The Major General pulled a pre-prepared report from his pocket. Stalin imposed a resolution. The petitioner began to thank warmly.
“Not worth gratitude,” Stalin remarked.
After reading the resolution written on the report: “Return the major's stuff. I. Stalin ", the general turned to the Supreme Commander:
- There's a slip of the tongue, Comrade Stalin. I am not a major, but a major general.
“No, everything is correct here,” Stalin assured him.

* Artist Mikhail Gelovani, the performer of the role of Stalin in the pre-war historical-revolutionary films, once asked to settle him at Stalin's dacha near Lake Ritsa. When this was reported to the leader, he asked:
- Why does Gelovani want to live on Ritsa?
- He wants to get used to your image.
- Then let him start with exile in Turukhansk.

* Stalin went with the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia Mgeladze along the alleys of the Kuntsevo dacha and treated him to lemons, which he himself grew in his lemongrass:
- Try it, you grew up here, near Moscow! And so several times between conversations on other topics:
- Try it, good lemons! Finally it dawned on the interlocutor:
- Comrade Stalin, I promise you that in seven years Georgia will provide the country with lemons, and we will not import them from abroad.
- Thank God I guessed it!

* Founder of the Moscow Art Theater - Konstantin Stanislavsky was known for the fact that he could not figure out for himself the system of relations under the Soviet regime. Once Stanislavsky was sitting in the same box with Stalin, who was a frequent visitor to the Moscow Art Theater. Looking through the repertoire, the leader jabbed his finger at the sheet:
- Why haven't we seen the writer in the Days of the Turbins repertoire for a long time Bulgakov? Stanislavsky threw up his hands, put his finger to his lips, and then whispered in the ear of the “father of peoples”, pointing with his finger at the ceiling:
- They banned! Only this is a terrible secret!
Laughing to his heart's content, Stalin seriously assured:
- They will allow! I'll make an agreement.
Another time, when Stalin arrived at the performance, Stanislavsky met him and, holding out his hand, said: "Alekseev"by calling your real name.
- Dzhugashvili- Stalin answered and walked to his chair.

* Before the war, a decree was issued on the punishment for being late for work over 20 minutes. The day after its release Vasily Katchalov late for an hour at the Moscow Art Theater. Panic arose in the theater, and the theater director requested instructions from Stalin. The answer came in the following form: “For failure to inform the People's Artist of the USSR, Comrade Kachalov's decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to issue a severe reprimand to the director of the Moscow Art Theater.

* December 1943 Evening in the Kremlin after the approval of the USSR Anthem. To the right and left of Stalin are the authors of the words: Gabriel El-Registan and Sergey Mikhalkov... The first several times persistently tried to put ham on the leader's plate. The reaction was as follows:
- Don't look after me! I am the host here and you are the guest.
The second listened respectfully to the toasts and conscientiously emptied the glasses of wine. Observant Stalin gently remarked to him:
- No need to drink to the bottom. Otherwise I won't be interested in talking to you.

The bust of the Generalissimo in a telephone booth by Vitaly KOMAR and Alexander MELAMID is considered the main attraction of The Hague's red-light district. A photo:votrube.ru

* During one of the performances Kozlovsky in the Kremlin, members of the Politburo began to call him for an encore and offer to perform something: "Sing an aria ... Sing a romance ..."
“You cannot encroach on the freedom of an artist,” Stalin intervened. Comrade Kozlovsky wants to sing "I remember a wonderful moment," and you are distracting.

* Immediately after the war, Marshal Rokossovsky I rebuilt myself a dacha, everyone envied him. And he invited the entire Politburo and the entire General Staff to wash it ... Stalin also arrived. We walked all night, sang songs, recalled the war. In the morning everyone says goodbye, then Stalin says to him:
- Thank you very much, comrade Rokossovsky, you have built a good children's holiday home.
On the same day, the house was inhabited by orphans.

* In 1939, watching the film "The Train Goes East". The film is not so hot: the train is going, constantly stops at all stations and all the passengers happily sing a song at each station.
- What station is it? Stalin asked.
- Demianovka, - answered the minister of cinematography responsible for viewing Ivan Bolshakov.
“This is where I'll get off,” Stalin said and left the hall.

* The candidacy for the post of Minister of the Coal Industry was discussed.
The director of one of the mines was offered Zasyadko... Someone objected:
- Everything is good, but he abuses alcohol!
“Invite him to me,” Stalin said.
Zasyadko came. Stalin began to talk to him and offered to drink.
- With pleasure, - said Zasyadko, poured a glass of vodka. - To your health, Comrade Stalin! - drank and continued the conversation.
Stalin took a little sip and, watching carefully, offered a second. Zasyadko - a second glass, and not in one eye. Stalin offered a third, but his interlocutor pushed his glass aside and said:
- Zasyadko knows when to stop.
We talked. At a meeting of the Politburo, when the proposed candidate was again declared to be abusing alcohol, Stalin, walking with his pipe, said:
- Zasyadko knows when to stop!
Since then Zasyadko headed the coal industry for many years ...

* When the great teacher and leader of nations received the Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne in the Kremlin Sergius Stragorodsky, he came to the meeting in a secular dress, and not in a bishop's vestment. The former seminary student puffed on his pipe and asked:
- Are you afraid of me, but not Him?

Photo: moyaezhva.rf

* Former People's Commissar of Armaments Boris Vannikov at the beginning of the war, they were suddenly released from prison, brought to Stalin, and he appointed him people's commissar of ammunition. Vannikov said:
- Tomorrow I will appear at the People's Commissariat, yesterday's prisoner. What authority will I have among my subordinates?
“We will take care of your authority,” Stalin replied. - I found time to sit!
In the morning, when Vannikov arrived at work, there was Pravda on his table with a decree conferring the title of Hero of Socialist Labor on him.

* Academician Alexander Bogomolets claimed that a person can live up to 150 years. Stalin closely followed his work, gave him an institute for this business. When, in 1946, the academician died at the age of 65, he said: "Well, he was a swindler - he deceived everyone!"

* On Stalin's trips, he was often accompanied by a security guard Tukov... He sat in the front seat next to the driver and used to fall asleep on the way. One of the members of the Politburo, riding with Stalin in the back seat, remarked:
- Comrade Stalin, I don’t understand which of you is protecting whom?
- What is that, - Iosif Vissarionovich answered, - he also put his pistol into my cloak - take it, they say, just in case!

* As a result of the offensive operation, Soviet troops reached the Baltic Sea, and the commander is General Baghramyan decided to please Stalin by sending him a bottle of Baltic water. But while this bottle got to the Kremlin, the Germans managed to recapture the bridgehead and push our troops from the coast. Stalin already knew about this and, when he was handed the bottle, he twisted it in his hands for several seconds, after which he returned it to the adjutant and said:
- Give it back to Baghramyan, tell him to pour it where you took it.

* When developing the Pobeda car, it was planned that the name of the car would be Rodina. Upon learning of this, Stalin ironically asked: "Well, how much will we have a Motherland?" The name of the car was immediately changed.

* The negotiations were about post-war borders, and Churchill said:
- But Lviv has never been a Russian city!
- And Warsaw was, - Stalin objected.
When they were deciding what to do with the German navy, Stalin suggested dividing and Churchill flooding.
- I agree, - Stalin nodded. - You will flood your half.

* Once at a meeting with scientists, Stalin asked one of the meteorologists present what percentage of their forecast accuracy was.
- Forty percent, Comrade Stalin.
- And you say the opposite, and then you will have sixty percent.

I returned the tree from the link.

Nicholas II banned the Christmas tree in 1915. The tsar considered that it was useless for a Russian person to support the German, that is, the enemy, tradition. The Bolsheviks at first canceled the decree, but soon recognized the holiday as a bourgeois relic and also deleted the New Year from the red dates of the calendar.

The forest beauty was rehabilitated only in 1935. Stalin, who never stopped celebrating the New Year with a plentiful feast, saw a great propaganda potential in the tree and ordered the return of the tradition.
It turned out, however, that over the years without a holiday, the production of toys in the country came to naught. I had to restore and master the production of ideologically consistent jewelry. So a real, beautiful and elegant New Year tree came to the holiday only at the end of 1936. A 15-meter tree was installed in the Column Hall of the House of Unions - as a symbol of the fact that life has become better, life has become more fun. And they angrily branded those who "denounced the wonderful children's entertainment as a bourgeois venture."
With the return of the tree, Stalin's New Year's receptions in the Kremlin, which were already on a grand scale, turned into real feasts. The tables were full of food and alcohol, and the leader made sure that the guests did not miss a single toast. Then he began to invite musicians and dancers to the holiday.

In bronze and granite.

In Soviet times, busts and statues of the Generalissimo decorated every settlement of the great country - in the USSR, there were about 6 thousand monuments to the leader. Only a few have survived to our times. But an amazing trend: in recent years, the monumental STALIN is once again returning to the pedestal.

* They began to immortalize the leader in stone, granite and bronze during his lifetime - the first monument by the sculptor Kharlamov appeared in 1929 in Moscow, after which monumentalism swept the whole country. In the 30s Stalin-the giant soared to a height of 25 m at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VDNKh). The leader of all times and peoples was often portrayed in the company of Lenin - the famous composition of Ukrainian sculptors Belostotsky, Pivovarova and Friedman stood in Gorki and served as a model for such statues. Later, the figure of Stalin was removed, and the lonely Ilyich bowed in an absurd pose, addressing someone unknown.
* In 1952, at the entrance to the Volga-Don Canal, the largest Stalin on the planet appeared - 54 meters with a pedestal. The Generalissimo stood over the Volga until 1961, and in 1973 Lenin was put in his place.
* Foreign Stalins were also striking in scale. In the mid-1950s, a sculptural group depicting Joseph Vissarionovich was carved out of a huge boulder in Prague, followed by eight people. Came to the opening Khrushchevwho has already undertaken to expose the personality cult of his predecessor. Presenting the Order of Lenin to the creators of the monument, Nikita Sergeevich muttered: “Too big. And it's too late. " In 1962, the monument in Prague was blown up.
* But today the rating of the "father of peoples" is steadily growing - almost half of the participants in all kinds of sociological research notes its positive role in the history of the country. It is noteworthy that in 2008, when the “Name of Russia” poll was conducted, it was Stalin who won the majority of votes. This result seemed to the organizers not politically correct, and the leader was "replaced" with a neutral Pushkin.
* Nevertheless, the people's love for Stalin is looking for a way out in the construction of new monuments to the "father of nations" or in the search and restoration of old ones. True, today's Iosif Vissarionovich stands not in the central squares, but in inconspicuous squares, where "cherishes" the hope of someday emerging from the darkness again.

By the next birthday of Stalin, I will not tell today the already quite obvious things about his social rehabilitation and the nature of his wide popularity, all this has already been said more than once. In this regard, I would like to turn to a narrower topic related to both Stalin and Donbass.

Here the other day, when I was studying materials on the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic, which in terms of historical continuity quite precedes the modern DNR, I came across an interesting interview with the son of the founder of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic, comrade "Artem". After the tragic death of Artyom, who was friends with the then still gaining weight Stalin and Kirov, Stalin adopted his son "Artyom" and raised him in his family. What Stalin's adopted son himself talks about in his old, but still topical interview in 2006, which is essentially an excerpt from his book http://www.e-reading.link/bookreader.php/1019538/Sergeev_-_Kak_zhil, _rabotal_i_vospityval_detey_I._V._Stalin.html "How Stalin lived, worked and raised his children."

Stalin's adopted son

Comrade Artem or Artem Fedorovich Sergeev.

Artem Fedorovich! Now everyone is discussing the film "Stalin's Wife" recently shown on television. Have you watched it?

Artem Fedorovich Sergeev was born into the family of Sergeev Fedor Andreevich (underground nickname - Artem), after whom dozens of settlements and streets were named in our country. After the death of the legendary Bolshevik, his son was raised in his family by a friend and colleague of Fyodor Sergeev, Joseph Stalin. Artem was friends with Stalin's son Vasily until his death. Now Major General of Artillery Sergeev lives in the village of Zhukovka on Rublevskoye Highway, in a house that his mother Elizaveta Lvovna bought back in 1937. Artem Fedorovich is 85 years old. On the advice of his mother, he kept diaries and recorded events that he himself witnessed.
The doors of Artyom Fedorovich's house, like other inhabitants of this elite village, are not open to everyone. Ekaterina Glushik showed me the way to Zhukovka, who recorded with Artem Fedorovich "Conversations about Stalin", published by the publishing house "Krymsky Most-9D". The atmosphere of Sergeev's house surprisingly preserved the spirit of pre-war dachas under the pine trees, with spacious verandas, old inlaid wardrobes, which Sergeev's mother bought for 20 rubles each. Our conversation began with the childhood memories of Artyom Fedorovich.

Politburo decision

- How did you get into Stalin's family?

My father worked with Stalin since the 4th Congress of the RSDLP. They met there in 1906.

In 1907, his father was arrested, Stalin was also arrested. Father spent 3 years in prison, 6 years in emigration (in China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand.)
Father and Stalin met again at the 6th Party Congress in 1917 and have been in constant communication ever since. They were together in Tsaritsyn, where Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva arrived already as Stalin's wife.
Before the X Congress, my father was in the Central Committee of the Party and was very friendly with Joseph Vissarionovich. Stalin's son and I were born almost simultaneously in the same maternity hospital. And his father once said to Stalin: "Anything can happen. Look after mine."
On July 24, 1921, my father was killed. On July 27, a meeting of the Politburo was held, which was attended by all five of its members. Item 18 of the agenda was written: "On providing for the family of Comrade Artem."
On July 27, 1921, at a meeting of the Politburo, among other issues, the implementation of the 18th paragraph "On providing for Artyom's family. Executor - Stalin" was considered.
The mother was very ill. And they took me to Stalin's family.

Map of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic, which was led by a professional revolutionary and Bolshevik Sergeev. By the way, this republic is a kind of historical precedent, and if Ukraine is trying to build its historical genesis from the UPR, then modern Novorossia has grown, among other things, from the ideas of local autonomy based on references to a really existing republic in Donbass.

Orphanage

- How did you end up in the orphanage for the children of government members?

In March 1918, the Soviet government moved from Petrograd to Moscow. At first, people were settled in the National and Metropol hotels, then they began to equip the Kremlin. The leaders of the state worked, regardless of time, there was no time left for the family. And it was decided to organize an orphanage for their children. It was created in the 23rd year. Its co-directors were Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva and my mother.

- Where was he?

On Malaya Nikitskaya, house 6. This is the house where Maxim Gorky later lived. There were 25 children of the leaders of the party and the state and 25 street children, pulled straight from the street boilers. They were specially placed together so as not to raise the children's elite. It made no difference who your parents were. But on Sundays, if you went home, you had to invite a child who had no parents and no home.

Labor education was the main thing in the orphanage. We were sweeping. They brought dishes. The most honorable thing was to be on duty and carry food. They tried to wash the dishes - they beat me. Everyone grabbed their plates, the dishes flew to the floor.
Vasily and I ended up in an orphanage when we were two and a half years old. The first time my mother brought me there by the handle, and the second time with my pot. This meant that I stay there.
When Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze and his wife died, their children Tanya and Tima were also brought to our orphanage. We lived there from the fall of 1923 to the spring of 1927. When Lenin died, we went to say goodbye to him in the entire orphanage. It was bitter cold. We froze our cheeks, and then they smeared them with goose fat. Before the construction of the mausoleum, a wooden crypt was erected, the entrance to which was from the side of the Spasskaya Tower.
Nadezhda Sergeevna and my mother constantly corresponded. For example, if Nadezhda Sergeevna was leaving with Stalin to the south, she wrote to my mother: grapes here cost so much, and pears - so much.

Apartments

- Where did Stalin's family live?

In the Kremlin. For all the time, Stalin had three apartments in the Kremlin. At first it was very small on Kommunisticheskaya Street, building 2. From the Trinity Gate, this is a two-storey house to the right. Stalin lived there with his family until 1931.
The apartment was so small that even Yasha (a son from Stalin's first marriage. - Author's note) did not have a room of his own. The place where his couch stood was hung with a sheet.

- What room did Vasily have?

It depends on which apartment. In the Amusement Palace, where in 1931 Stalin moved with his family, he had a very small, vaulted room, with hooks screwed into the ceiling, on which were hanging rings and trapezoids. When we moved to another house, Vasily also had a small room, a table, a narrow bed, a sofa on which I slept.

- Were you like stepbrothers?

We could not live without each other. Until 1931, my mother and I lived in the "National" (then - in a house on the Naberezhnaya. - Author's note), and Vasily did not go home from school, but to us. It was a double judgment. Vasily had Stalin's house and my mother's house. I have my mother's house and Stalin's house. After the death of his wife Nadezhda Sergeevna in 1933, Stalin moved to the Senate Corps. The last apartment became his workplace. From the room where the sofa and bed stood, the door opened directly into the conference room. He lived in the service. The house was state-owned. He no longer had a family hearth.
Stalin always worked. If you can get to work, he taught, you will never say that you are tired. The most encouraged is work. Even when he went to Matsesta in the summer for treatment, he worked there day and night. He had severe rheumatism, joints ached. In order not to waste time on a trip to the waters, Stalin made a pool at his dacha, and they brought healing water there for him. He was treated without leaving his home.

- What was Stalin's wife like in life?

Stalin was a very interesting person at home. He was affectionate. His wife was much stricter. She loved order in the house, so that the daily routine was observed. And under Stalin there was freedom. When he came, he paid us attention for at least five minutes, and it was interesting with him. Until now, I consider Stalin's wife the most beautiful, most elegant woman. But she was not photogenic. She dressed simply: a white jacket, a navy blue skirt, a blue jacket. Black pumps. No decorations. No perfumery. There was no large closet in her room. Her room was small. It seems that she had two suits: for going out and in what she wore at home.

- How did the tragedy happen?

Stalin's wife shot herself. I was 11 years old when she died. She had wild headaches. On November 7, she brought Vasily and me to the parade. About twenty minutes later she left - could not stand it. She, apparently, had an abnormal fusion of the bones of the cranial vault, and in such cases, suicide is not uncommon. The tragedy took place the next day, November 8th. After the parade, Vasya and I wanted to go out of town. Stalin and his wife were visiting Voroshilov. She left the guests early and headed home. Molotov's wife accompanied her. They made two circles around the Kremlin, and Nadezhda Sergeevna went to her room. She had a tiny bedroom. She came and lay down. Stalin came later. I lay down on the sofa. In the morning Nadezhda Sergeevna did not get up for a long time. We went to wake up and saw her dead. Vasily and I were in Sokolovka when she died. They called us and told us to come to Moscow, while Svetlana stayed at the dacha.
The coffin with the body was in one of the premises of GUM. Stalin sobbed. Vasily hung around his neck and repeated: "Daddy, don't cry." When the coffin was carried out, Stalin went for the hearse, which went to the Novodevichy Convent. At the cemetery we were told to take the earth in our hands and throw it on the coffin. We did just that.

- What was the relationship between Stalin and his wife?

Judging by the stories of my mother, he loved her madly. She's his too. She married him when she was not even 17 years old. They said that Stalin raped her on the train. Nonsense! Father and mother lived with them in the same carriage, and she went already as Stalin's wife.

- Did Stalin communicate with his father-in-law later?

Sergey Yakovlevich Alliluyev has lived in a dacha in Zubalovo since the 1930s. Stalin visited him. The death of Nadezhda Sergeevna brought them closer together. Sergei Yakovlevich and I corresponded. The last letter came from him in the spring of 1945. "When Nadezhda Sergeevna's brother died, my mother and I were at the funeral, and Sergei Yakovlevich told my mother:" Liza, Pavlusha interfered with someone. "

Cottages

Stalin's first country residence was on Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway, 14 kilometers from Moscow. In the past, it was the dacha of the oil industrialist Zubalov.
At the dacha in Zubalovo there was a commandant and service personnel. Food for everyone was prepared in the same way.
Stalin was taken by the driver Nikolai Ivanovich Soloviev. He was Brusilov's regular chauffeur on the Southwestern Front. In the 1920s, Stalin had a driver named Udalov, but he grew old and became the head of a garage.
The dacha was a two-story house. Stalin's study and bedroom are on the second floor. On the ground floor, to the right of the entrance - Svetlana's room, then the dining room, another room and a veranda. Vasily did not have a permanent room. There was a piano in one of the rooms. Stalin came here on Sunday morning. Saturday was a working day. At the dacha there were ducks, chickens, guinea fowls, an apiary. The dog was given to Stalin by Papanin. This dog named Merry was with him on the ice.

- And Stalin himself was engaged in physical work?

Yes. I dug, planted, probably to distract myself, not to get stupid from the papers. Played small towns, skittles. And so all the time - papers, papers ...

- Did you read a lot?

Lots of. His library was kept in the Kremlin. I made notes in the books with a pencil. Contrary to popular belief, he greatly appreciated Bulgakov: "This writer boldly showed that heroes were not only on the side of the Red Army. Heroes are those who love their homeland more than life. And such, unfortunately, fought not only on our side."

- Did Stalin like to receive guests?

The companies were business. Have a snack - and get to work.

- Why did Stalin always dress like a military man?

This has become a habit since the pre-war era. At home he wore canvas trousers and a linen jacket. Once I saw a new overcoat at home and flared up: "I would have walked that year ..."
Abram Isaevich Legner, a tailor, an NKVD colonel, kept a spare set of clothes for Stalin in his workshop: "The Master does not have a second set. What if he gets caught on a nail?"
When it was necessary to bury him, it turned out that there was not even an extra pair of underwear. And according to Orthodox customs, it is not allowed to bury in a darned one. They made him linen specially for the funeral.

Kuntsevo and Volynskoe

In the early 1930s, a "near" dacha was built in Kuntsevo. In essence, this was his main working residence - from there Stalin led the state. In 1934, Stalin moved to Volynskoe, in a two-story green brick house. His office was on the second floor. In the kitchen there was a tiled stove with a stove bench on which he liked to relax. The dining room is downstairs, at the same time it served as a meeting room. Zhdanov played the red piano. There were no guards at the gate, and the gate to the forest was not locked. Stalin played records on the gramophone. Once the conversation turned to music, and Stalin asked who is better: Leshchenko or Vertinsky? We said: Leshchenko. Stalin said that there are still people like Leshchenko, but Vertinsky is alone. When he was in a bad mood, he put on a disc with the song "On the Hills of Manchuria" with the old words:

The crosses of distant beautiful heroes turn white,
And shadows of the past swirl around
They tell us about vain sacrifices.

He always had order on his desk, high-quality stationery, well-sharpened pencils. While working, Stalin drank Borjomi, smoked a pipe, breaking the Herzegovina Flor cigarettes and without looking, put tobacco into the pipe. There was a carpet on the floor, but they walked along a narrow linen path that lay on top of the carpet.

- Did you give Stalin gifts?

He didn't like gifts. And they knew it.

- How did Stalin die?

In the country. Doctors were not allowed for a long time, but he was alive, but unconscious. They were admitted when it was all over. After death, neither Svetlana nor Vasily could be there.

Children of the leader

- Did Stalin communicate with the first family?

His first wife died when their son was only 7 months old.

- Did Yakov live with Stalin?

Not always. At the age of 14 he came to Moscow. Then he studied at the institute in Leningrad, got married. Stalin made him an apartment when his daughter Galya was born. She is a philologist and works. She is 68 years old. She has a son.

- And what was Yakov Dzhugashvili like?

Yasha was a wonderful, gentle person. We were friends with him and dreamed of serving together. He studied at the academy and wanted to be the battalion commander, and I - the battery commander in his battalion. He had no military experience, and I served in the army for three years before the war. We last saw each other on June 1st. We spent the day together. On June 18 - three days before the war - we arrived from serious shooting ranges. They told me not to go anywhere. On the morning of June 22, everything became clear ... On June 25, our echelons had already gone.

- How do you remember Stalin's daughter Svetlana?

Very modest, hardworking, did not tolerate privileges.

- They said that Vasily had a gorgeous dacha.

He did not have his own dacha - there was a state-owned one near the Gorki-2 state farm. His children did not get it.

- How was Stalin's family punished?

The biggest punishment is Stalin's discontent.

- Did Stalin's children understand the situation in the country?

They knew that life is a struggle. We were ready for this fight. It is no coincidence that many leaders of the state have children who became soldiers and gave their lives for their homeland. Frunze's son died at the age of 18, and Mikoyan's son too.

- Did you communicate with Stalin's children during the war?

With Vasily.

Life after death

- Who was Vasily in the war?

A combat pilot, the most courageous fighter. But Vasily was told: "You still have a surname, which you must also protect."
He was an inspector pilot who determined the level of training of the combat personnel, the commander of the 34th Guards Regiment, in my opinion. He took up this position on January 1, 1943, as regiment commander Ivan Kleschev died - he was killed because of the actress Zoya Fedorova.

- How?

He was 22 years old. Fell in love with an actress. She wanted to celebrate the New Year with him, and he said about his own: "I can not fly. There is no weather." She teased him: "What kind of hero are you?" (and he was a Hero of the Soviet Union). And he flew. But I couldn't land normally. And Ivan Kleschev died. So Vasily told me.

- How did Vasily end up in prison?

He was 32 years old before his arrest. At that time, he was already drinking great. Once we were sitting with him, and he pours.
- Vasya, that's enough! - I said.
He raised the pistol and answered:
- What's enough? I live as long as my father lives. Father will close his eyes, the next day Beria will tear me apart, and Khrushchev and Malenkov will help him. Do you think it's easy to live under an ax? And if I drink - everything is side.
He knew a lot about them. And his instinct did not disappoint. The father died in March, and in April he was arrested. He was convicted on two counts. 58th - "Anti-Soviet agitation": spoke badly about Beria, Khrushchev. They were also tried under Article 193 for abuse of office, financial violations. What was the abuse? He made an arena and a stable out of unused hangars at the central Moscow airfield. Created an equestrian sports team, which became an allied team. He built the first and only Olympic swimming pool in the country. They said it was for their wife. But she was the champion of the country in swimming! He was sentenced to 8 years and served from call to call. Having released him, he was immediately exiled to Kazan. In Kazan, they settled on the 5th floor in a building without an elevator. And his legs were sick. In general, his whole life is a continuous tragedy. Vasily loved animals since childhood. Once I came to his dacha, he sits - next to a formidable dog. Vasily strokes him and says: "He will not deceive, he will not change."

-Who's his wives?

On December 15, 1940, he calls: "I will marry Gala Bourdonskaya." With Galya they had two children. Sasha was born on October 14, 1941, now People's Artist of Russia, director of the Theater of the Russian Army. In 1943, their daughter Nadia was born.
He parted with Galina. The second wife Ekaterina Semyonovna, daughter of Marshal Timoshenko, was a woman of royal beauty. They had two children, Vasya and Svetlana. Vasya died at the age of 23. Svetlana at 42.
The last wife was a very strong-willed woman, USSR champion in swimming Kapitolina Georgievna Vasilyeva. She held him back as best she could. Ekaterina Timoshenko was cool about his children from her first marriage. But Kapitolina Georgievna caressed them. He was sent to prison when the children were young. The eldest, Sasha, was born in October 1941, and Vasily was imprisoned in April 1953. They saw him only in 1961.

- Why didn't Vasily change his surname after the death of his father?

Sveta changed her name after Stalin's death, but Vasily did not approve of her. Although he was forced to do so. In Kazan, he was given a passport with a different last name. He took it as an insult.
They buried him in Kazan. They were reburied in 2004 at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow under the real name of their father - Dzhugashvili.

- How was your life?

Lieutenant Sergeev before the war.

I was the commander of a partisan detachment, was captured by the Germans, miraculously survived. Then he fought at the front, ended the war for Prague. Sciatica reminds of those years. Once upon a time I lay in cold water for a long time. You couldn't even move the reeds. I had two wives, three beautiful children from my first marriage. The second wife, Elena Yurievna, died in January last year. It was a disaster for me. With her, the house was light and comfortable. And I dedicated the book "Conversations about Stalin" to her memory.

But I recommend reading this book http://www.e-reading.link/bookreader.php/1019538/Sergeev_-_Kak_zhil,_rabotal_i_vospityval_detey_I._V._Stalin.html (you can also find these and other photos of Stalin and his family there)

In general, Stalin fulfilled the request of Artyom Sergeev and brought up a worthy person and citizen, whose fate was more successful than that of Stalin's own children. In this regard, the history of Stalin's family has always amazed with its tragedy. Having built the first socialist superpower that shook the domination of capital and received almost absolute power after 1937, Stalin's personal life against this background frankly did not work out, being marked by a series of tragedies, which naturally could not but leave their mark on Stalin.

Well, so, today is celebrated both the birthday of Joseph Stalin and the birthday of Konstantin Rokossovsky. Happy holiday to all comrades!

I congratulate all Soviet people on the birthday of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili), the man who ruled our country during the years of its greatest rise and prosperity!

There were years, years of fighting
The homeland was blazing with fire,
We went on hot hikes
Follow your teacher - the leader!
Comrade Stalin led us into battle,
First Marshal - Voroshimov Klim
And we drove the enemies far away
To the border of Stalin's land.

In my country, free and beautiful
We breathe freely, we live happily
And popular love and gratitude
We carry it to our native Stalin ...

Our peaceful labor in fields and factories
We give to the fatherland dear
Cities and villages destroyed by war
Our working people have raised up again.

Let the enemies threaten with a cold war -
Dear friendship, our people go
In foreign lands, ordinary people know -
The great Stalin calls everyone to peace.

Fly banners over the world
After all, with us, comrades,
Whose name is in the hearts of millions
How the best song lives.

Everyone in the world is stronger and freer
Happy Soviet people.
Your fiery voice tonight
For Stalin, he serves!

If Stalin was dear
I would have met in my life
I would to Stalin dear,
To our friend he said:

Dear Comrade Stalin,
Great leader of October,
You gave me happiness
They brought me to the people!

Never native country
I didn't love so hard
Never am I fighting
The service did not pass like that.

Never songs like this
I did not sing on hikes,
Never more wonderful
I did not meet the commanders.

Never seen in my life
I am such happy faces
Not a coast of such a homeland.
I did not guard such boundaries.

You gave protection to the country,
Strengthened the borders.
Dear Comrade Stalin,
Allow me to report:

If only given
Word of the army to say
We have something to fight for
There is someone to protect!

That's what Stalin's dear
I told our friend
If Stalin was dear
I would have met in my life.

If they meet with us at home
A few old friends
All that is dear to us is remembered
The song sounds more fun.

Well, comrades, let's break the table
Above are glasses of wine
Let's drink to our free homeland,
Let's drink and pour again.

Let's drink to the seething Russian prowess,
For the heroic people!
Let's drink to our mighty army,
Let's drink to the valiant fleet!

Let's get up, comrades, let's drink to the guard,
There is no equal to her in courage.
Our toast to Stalin! Our toast to the Party!
Our toast for the banner of victories!

The unbreakable union of the free republics
Great Russia united forever.
Long live created by the will of the peoples
United, mighty Soviet Union!

Friendship, peoples are a reliable stronghold!

Let it lead from victory to victory!

Through the thunderstorms the sun of freedom shone for us,
And Lenin illuminated our great path.
We were raised by Stalin - to be loyal to the people
He inspired us to work and deeds.

Glory, our free Fatherland,
The happiness of peoples is a reliable stronghold!
Soviet banner, national banner

We raised our army in battles,
We will sweep the vile invaders off the road!
In battles we decide the fate of generations,
We will lead our Fatherland to glory!

Glory, our free Fatherland,
The glory of the peoples is a reliable stronghold!
Soviet banner, national banner
Let it lead from victory to victory!

Long live Stalin,
Long live the one
Who leads us from victory to victory!
Lead us by his majestic law,
Lead to our eleven sides!

Great deeds for all ages
Stalin glorified our native people.
Lenin's banner flies over the world,
Calls to the path of struggle and exploits.

The sun is open for us,
The lights of victory over the country are burning
Comrade Stalin lives to our delight -
Our wise leader, dear teacher.

In the fire of labor and in the flames of battles
Stalin tempered the hearts of the heroes.
Like a ray of light, his mighty genius
He illuminated the road for us to communism.

We build happiness with an unyielding will,
The road to us is indicated by the Leader;
Raising high red banners
We are going to communism after Stalin.

In the lucky republics of our country
The peoples are full of joy and happiness;
They speak in different dialects,
But everywhere the same thoughts burn:

The country is you!
The country is me!
In battle and in work, we are friends with you.
Worthy of the glory of great victories,
I elect you to the Supreme Council!

My Stalin beloved teacher and friend,
Millions of hands are outstretched to you
You are the first of the first in labor and struggle,
We bring all the best feelings to you!

You are a fearless fighter of the Red Army,
And you always keep the lead ready
You guard my happiness as a brother,
You are my best and loyal deputy!

If tomorrow is war, if the enemy attacks,
If the dark force comes,
As one person, the entire Soviet people
It will stand up for a free Motherland.

On earth, in heaven and at sea
Our tune is both powerful and severe:
If tomorrow is a war
If the hike is tomorrow,
Get ready for a hike today!

If tomorrow is war, the country will stir
From Kronstadt to Vladivostovka.
The country will sway, great and strong,
And we will crush the enemy cruelly.

The plane will fly, the machine gun will fire,
Mighty tanks will rumble
And the battleships will go, and the infantry will go,
And the dashing carts will rush.

We do not want war, but we will defend ourselves,
We strengthen the defense for good reason,
And on enemy land we will defeat the enemy
With little blood, a mighty blow!

In the whole world, nowhere else is there such a strength
To crush our country,
Stalin is with us, and with an iron hand
Voroshilov leads us to victory!

Get up people, get ready for the hike!
Drums, drum harder!
Musicians, go ahead! Singers, go ahead!
Throw our victory song!

Sing a ringing song
Sing along more fun.
For my dear side,
About his mighty strength.

Let's smash with a stern hand,
We will defeat all fascists in battle.
We are at the call of dear Stalin
We go into battle for our homeland.

Where the mountain eagle flies

People compose a wonderful song.

This song flies faster than a bird
And the world of oppressors trembles viciously
She will not be held by posts and borders
It will not be held by anybody's lines.

She is not afraid of whips or bullets
This song sounds on the fire of the barricades
The rickshaw and coolies sing this song
A Chinese soldier is singing this song.

And raising a song about him like a banner
The ranks of the united front are marching;
Are burning, a formidable flame flares up,
The nations rise up for the last struggle.

And we sing this song proudly
And we glorify the greatness of the Stalin years,
We sing about life, beautiful, happy,
About the joy of our great victories!

Edge to edge, mountain tops
Where the planes conduct their conversation,
About Stalin wise, dear and beloved
the peoples sing a beautiful song.

Accept, Great Stalin, our Father,
Love to the homeland of loyal hearts,
Accept the bow of your people
Happy birthday to you!

We all sing the praises of your deeds
Live our Leader, live for our joy!

You lit up our century with a clear light,
You are the closest person to all of us,
With you we have passed a glorious, difficult path,
Fighting for the honor of their native land.

You lead us dear Leninist,
You call us all to new exploits,
We entered solar life with you,
Struggling for peace and building communism!

The armor is strong, and our tanks are fast,
And our people are full of courage:
Soviet tankers are in the ranks -
Sons of their great homeland.

Thundering fire, sparkling with the glitter of steel
Cars will go on a furious campaign
When Comrade Stalin sends us into battle
And Voroshilov will lead us into battle!

Factories labor and labor of collective farm arable lands
We will protect, keeping our country,
Shock force of gun turrets
And the speed, and the onslaught of fire.

Let the enemy remember, hiding in ambush
We are on the alert, we are watching the enemy.
We don't want an inch of someone else's land
But we won't give up our top either.

And if a hardened enemy climbs up to us,
He will be beaten everywhere and everywhere!
Then the drivers will press the starters
And through the forests, along the hills, along the water.

The love for our native land is burning in our hearts,
We are going into mortal combat for the honor of our native country.
Smoke-filled cities are burning.
The stern god of war thunders in the dense forests.

The artillerymen! Stalin gave the order!
Artillerymen, the Fatherland is calling us.
From many thousands of batteries
For the tears of our mothers
For our Motherland - Fire! The fire!

Find out your own mother, find out your wife is a friend,
Get to know a distant home and my whole family
That our steel blizzard still beats the enemy,
What will we carry to our native land!

The whitewashed hour will strike, the campaign will end.
But before you go to your family's homes,
In honor of our Leader, in honor of our people,
We will give a joyful fireworks at midnight.

Many stars are shining in the sky
And one crystal;
Many thoughts in mind
At home, Stalin.

Spring garden blooms
Our glorious land;
Beloved Stalin spoke
It's about happiness from the Kremlin.

Through the rivers, across the distance,
On a quiet golden evening
Dear Comrade Stalin,
I heard your voice.

Songs flow like streams
There are cheerful words in the songs.
The constitution gives
We all have great rights.

We should see Stalin
We should talk to him,
Tell me how on a collective farm
It became fun for us to live.

Oh my gardens, gardens,
Blossom all around in the spring.
Oh, we're happy on the collective farm
and we live well.

Oh my gardens are blooming,
Songs are pouring over the village.
Dear Comrade Stalin,
We thank you helmet.

Let the sun shine brighter
Let the gardens, fields bloom,
To make it even more beautiful
Our glorious land.

My dear country is wide,
There are many forests, fields and rivers in it!
I don't know any other country like that,
Where a man breathes so freely.

At the table, no one is superfluous,
Everyone is deservedly awarded,
We write in gold letters
National Stalinist law.

Morning paints with gentle light
The walls of the ancient Kremlin,
Wakes up at dawn
All Soviet land.

The chill runs out of the gate
The noise in the streets is louder.
Good morning sweet city
Heart of my Motherland!

Seething, mighty,
Invincible by anyone
My country, my Moscow,
You are the most beloved!

May sun, brighter
Light the sky blue.
To the tower of the Mausoleum
To convey our joy.

To shine brighter
Our slogans of victories
For Stalin to raise his hand,
Sending us hello.

We grow, we sing, we play
We live in a happy time
With a friendly song we open
Pioneer our joyful home.

You trams are ringing quieter
By the river, on the Boulevard Ring
For beloved Stalin to hear
Our song in the Kremlin Palace.

On a green oak,
Yes over that space
Two clear falcons
Conversations.

And these falcons
People all learned:
The first falcon is Lenin,
The second falcon is Stalin.
And they flew around
A flock of falcons ...

Oh like the first falcon
I said goodbye to the second
He's with his dying word
I turned to a friend.

You are my gray falcon,
The hour has come to part
All the work, worries
They lay down on you.

And the other answered:
Forget worries
We swear to you -
Let's not turn off the road!

And he kept his oath,
Battle oath.
He made happy
The whole native country!

In the vastness of the wonderful homeland,
Tempered in battles and labor,
We made a joyful song
about the great Friend and Leader.

The sunniest and brightest edge
The whole Soviet land became.
Stalin's bountiful harvest.
The collective farm fields are expanding.

We are given sparkling wings
Great courage is given to us.
Songs of love and abundance
The Soviet Country is famous.

Stalin is our military glory!
Stalin - flight of our youth!
With songs, fighting and winning
Our people follow Stalin!