Vasily Iosifovich Stalin (21 March 1921-19 March 1962) was a Soviet Air Force Lieutenant-General and the son of Joseph Stalin.
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Vasily Iosifovich Stalin was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 21 March 1921, the son of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, and the brother of Svetlana Alliluyeva. He was a poor student due to his poor behavior, and he flew in 29 combat missions during World War II as a Soviet Air Force pilot, claiming to have shot down two German aircraft. At the age of 24, he was made the youngest Major-General in the Red Army, and he took part in the Soviet occupation of East Germany after the war. He also took up an interest in ice hockey, but the team he managed died in a 1950 plane crash, and he divested himself of the reformed team after his father's death in 1953. He drunkenly claimed that his father had been poisoned, and he was arrested on 28 April 1953 for visiting a restaurant with foreign diplomats. He was charged and imprisoned for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda, and he was released from prison in 1960 and died in 1962 due to chronic alcoholism.