How it was №431 10/03/1998 (1998)

Life and death of Vasily Stalin.

Once his father uttered the historical phrase: "The son does not answer for his father."

The sinister irony is that his own son answered for his father with his life.

He was born in the Kremlin, in the family of the most powerful dictator of the 20th century.

He was a darling of fate and a favorite of women.

At the age of 26 he became a lieutenant-general, in 34 years - a prisoner without a name and surname.

He did not live just a few days before his 42nd birthday; all forgotten, he died in Kazan, and the secret of his death is still unsolved.

In the next investigation of Oleg Shklovsky, Lieutenant-General Stepan Mikoyan, Lieutenant-General Sergey Dolgushin, Colonel Fedor Prokopenko, doctor Oleg Belakovsky, former head of the investigation department of the KGB of the USSR Nikolai Chistyakov, lawyer Andrei Sukhomlinov.

Interview in the recording: Vladimir Stalin's cousin Vladimir Alliluyev, former chairman of the KGB of the USSR Vladimir Semichastny, the third wife of V. Stalin, Kapitolina Vasilyeva, the investigator of the military prosecutor's office Valery Kondratov.

The story is supplemented with archival photographs and shots of documentary chronicles with the participation of Vasily Stalin.