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...other, Yasha Djugashvili, was Stalin's son by his first wife, Katerina. Vasya and sister Svetlana, 23, are children of Stalin's second wife, Allilueva, who died...
...world got one of its rare glimpses of long-lipped Major General Vasily Yosifovich ("Vasya") Stalin, 28, Stalin's favorite son. † Ogonek, a Soviet picture magazine, showed him at the controls of a plane, commanding the air show over Moscow's May Day parade...
...then to Nadya Sergeievna Alleluieva, who died in 1932. By his first wife he had a son, Yasha Djugashvili, now in his thirties, an obscure engineer in Moscow. Father and son do not hit it off. By Mrs. Stalin No. 2 he had a son and daughter: Vasya, now 19, and Svetlana, 14. Good-looking Daughter Svetlana is the apple of her father's eye. The two children go to school, but live in the Kremlin. Joseph's cackling, gossipy mother, old Ekaterina Georguvna Djugashvili, whom Soviet and foreign journalists used to dote on interviewing, died in Tiflis...
Serious-minded Vasya (David Morris) and easygoing Abram (Eric Dressier) inhabit a squalid, one-room municipal apartment borrowed from an uproarious poet who has gone to the farms to develop his muscles. Each unknown to the other, they marry-or "register"-on the same day, return with their wives. The congestion is further complicated by the return of the poet with huge biceps. He, however, heroically surrenders his hovel, expecting it to become a "collective Soviet paradise...
...Vasya's wife Ludmilla (Beatrice De Neergaard) is a plump, "undeveloped" peasant who cannot join the Party because she insists on retaining such "bourgeois knickknacks" as a canary, sofa pillows, curtains, rubber plants. She also has "medieval notions" about making men comfortable. Abram's wife Tonya (Fraye Gilbert), on the other hand, catechizes her husband on "ideology," hounds him with a book when he is hungry. The couples inevitably end by quarreling with their mates, longing for a rearrangement. When the poet learns what has happened to his collective paradise, he mutters bitterly, "Sabotage!" The rearrangement is effected...