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Stalin's grandson who rejected dictator's name dies at 75
Born in 1941, Burdonsky told Russian TV that he had little to do with the Soviet dictator before his death in 1953: "I saw him during the May and November parades from the stands. I only saw him close-up... lying in state."
Two years ago the theatre director said that nobody would want the childhood he had had, and that he had changed his name to pursue a life in the arts.
He once told an interviewer that he saw his grandfather as a Shakespearean character, a mixture of genius and madness. While he had been bitterly opposed to him as a younger man, he said he had come to see Stalin as a very powerful 20th-Century figure, despite his tyranny and cruelty.
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, who died in December 2016, saw Stalin rather differently. When an independent Russian newspaper described his grandfather as a "bloodthirsty cannibal", he took the paper to the European Court of Human Rights and lost.
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EXCLUSIVE: 'Stalin was no bloodthirsty cannibal...and Putin lacks brains!': Grandson of Soviet tyrant's astonishing defence of dictator who killed millions
The grandson of Joseph Stalin has denied the Soviet tyrant was a 'bloodthirsty cannibal' and has blasted current Russian President Vladimir Putin as having a 'lack of brains'.
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, 79, spoke exclusively to MailOnline after he lost a ruling in the European Court of Human Rights seeking to defend the reputation of his infamous grandfather, who Western historians blame for the slaughter of tens of millions of his countrymen.
In a wide-ranging diatribe, he insisted Putin was not a strong leader like Stalin, attacking the former KGB spy's topless photo stunts and claiming he heads a government of 'thieves and tricksters'.
In a bizarre rant, Dzhugashvili also insisted Britain remains an 'enemy' to Russia - even though he sent his son Jacob to art college in Scotland.
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Defiant: Stalin's grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvili denies his forefather was a 'bloodthirsty cannibal'. He said: 'Nowadays it is hard to find common sense in anything being said about Stalin, because a general prescription has been given to our society. It is that Stalin must be blamed for everything'
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Stalin's grandson defends notorious Country leader's actions
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