“I will not renounce my father!” – this is how Vasily Stalin responded to Khrushchev’s demand to “condemn the cult of personality” and “the crimes of Stalinism.” A combat fighter pilot, a war hero, accustomed to looking death in the face at the front, Vasily Iosifovich did not chicken out, did not flinch, did not “bend in” before the new government - and paid for loyalty to the blessed memory of his father with “prison and scrip”, an unjust sentence, eight years of imprisonment, exile, disability and untimely death at the age of 40. And the reason for his arrest was his appeal to the Chinese embassy with information about his father’s poisoning and a request for political asylum. This is probably how these sensational memoirs ended up in Beijing, where they were published after the death of Vasily Stalin. Now this book is finally returning to the domestic reader. These are the personal diaries of the “Stalinist falcon”, who accepted an unequal battle for his ideals. This is the last confession of the Leader’s beloved son, who turned out to be worthy of his great father.