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Stalin did not kill his family. His father and mother died of natural causes.

His first wife died of typhus. His second wife committed suicide. His eldest son, Yakov, committed virtual suicide by deliberately running at the fence while in a German prisoner of war camp so that the guards would shoot him. They didn't miss. (Stalin had already refused to exchange him for German prisoners of war telling the Germans he had no son by that name.)

His next eldest son, Vasily, and daughter, Svetlana, survived him.

Ironically, Stalin had signed a decree to the effect that all Russian soldiers who allowed themselves to be taken prisoner were to be considered traitors and enemies of the state. They and their entire families were subject to exile, imprisonment or execution. Joseph Stalin was therefore, by his own decree, legally subject to execution for treason when his son was taken prisoner.

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