MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's security service said Wednesday there is sufficient evidence to prove that Yakov Dzhugashvili, the son of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, was held captive by the Germans in the Second World War.
The head of the Federal Security Service's registration and archives department, Vasily Khristophorov, said: "According to our archive documents, Yakov Dzhugashvili was actually in captivity, which is confirmed by numerous testimonies."
According to official Soviet records, Lt. Yakov Dzhugashvili, who commanded an artillery battery during the war, was taken prisoner in 1941 near the Belarusian town of Vitebsk and was held in camps until 1943, when he feigned an escape and was shot dead by guards. But certain media reported recently that Yakov never was in German captivity.
