Vasily Iosifovich Stalin (Russian Васи́лий Ио́сифович Джугашви́ли; March 21, 1921 – March 19, 1962), born Vasily Iosifovich Dzhugashvili (Russian Васи́лий Ио́сифович Ста́лин), was the son of Joseph Stalin by his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva.∼He was the son of Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. The death of his mother represented a major change in his life. Starting from this moment, Joseph Stalin ceased to visit his children; only the nursemaid and head of Stalin's security guards looked after Vasily and his sister, Svetlana. One officer, Sergei Efimov, was charged with continuously looking after the two children. Vasily started his active military service in the 16th Aviation Division in Moscow. Here he met Galina Burdonskaia, his future wife. They married when Vasily was 19. As an officer of the Red Air Force, he received rapid promotion. At the beginning of World War II, he was Inspector of Air Forces in the General Staff. In December 1941, he was a Major and after a couple of months was promoted Colonel. In January 1943, Colonel Vasily Stalin was designated commander of the 32nd Guards Air Regiment. During February and March 1943 he carried out 26 armed sorties. On 5 March he shot down an FW-190. He claimed another German aircraft soon after. He was also the manager of national ice hockey team. In 1950, most of its members died when its plane went down in a snowstorm as it approached the Sverdlovsk airport. The crash was covered up by Vasily Stalin, who feared his father's reaction. The younger Stalin immediately recruited a new team, and his father apparently never knew the difference. asked the new Soviet leaders, Nikita Khrushchev and Georgi Malenkov, for clemency but he was considered a dangerous person and he was judged in a behind-closed-doors trial and was not allowed legal representation. He was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment and disciplinary work period. He was imprisoned in the special penitentiary of Vladimir under the name Vasily Pavlovich Vasilyev. He was released from prison on January 11, 1960. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to give him a pension of 300 rubles, a flat in Moscow, and a three-month treatment vacation in Kislovodsk.