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Thomas McCall · 01-05-2004, 05:40 PM

Does anyone have any information on the capture of Josef Stalin's son Yakov around the Vitebsk area on the 16th of July 1941?

Do you know what regiment he served in or the nature in which he was captured?

As a result of his son's capture Stalin disowned his son as a traitor to the motherland and a coward. If Yakov had survived the war as a POW he probably would have been interoggated by SMERSH and the NKVD and placed in a Gulag.

Thanks

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Thomas McCall Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Carmarthen, Wales Posts: 131	Does anyone have any information on the capture of Josef Stalin's son Yakov around the Vitebsk area on the 16th of July 1941? Do you know what regiment he served in or the nature in which he was captured? As a result of his son's capture Stalin disowned his son as a traitor to the motherland and a coward. If Yakov had survived the war as a POW he probably would have been interoggated by SMERSH and the NKVD and placed in a Gulag. Thanks __________________ Gadair unig ei drig draw!- Ei dwyfraich, Fel pe'n ddifrif wrandaw, Heddiw estyn yn ddistaw Mewn hedd hir am un na ddaw. gan, R.Williams Parry