Both supporters and critics of the Soviet leader recall the phrase in the debate that the responsibility of parents does not apply to their children. We checked whether Stalin really pronounced this phrase.

The assertion that Stalin belongs to the phrase “son for his father is not responsible” is found in the materials "Komsomolskaya Pravda" And "Radio Liberty", V Internet collectors of quotes and on the project website "Immortal hut". “The Son for the Father is not responsible” - the name of one of the chapters of the poem Alexander Tvardovsky "By the right of memory".

In many publications, with the mention of this allegedly said, the phrase claims that the leader uttered her at the end of 1935 at a meeting of the combines. The words “son for the father does not answer” were Stalin’s response to the speech of one of the peasants that, although his father was a fist, the speaker himself “would be honestly fight ... for building socialism”. According to the authors of some texts about this, the corresponding certificate is in the issue of the newspaper Pravda of December 4, 1935.

Almost a third this issue Pravda is indeed devoted to the meeting of “advanced combiners and combine harvesters” with members of the Central Committee and the Government, held on December 1, 1935. The first lane is entirely occupied by the text of the speech, which Stalin said at the meeting, most of the second page - the speech of delegates from the Republic of the Germans of the Volga region, the Sverdlovsk and Kharkov regions, the Azerbaijan SSR and Georgia. But there is no replica “son for the father” in this issue “Pravda”.

However, the newspaper spoke about the meeting with combines more than once. December 2 was released 331st number "Pravda" for 1935. The meeting of the leaders and Soviet leaders also devoted a significant part of the newspaper, readers and in this issue were offered to familiarize themselves with the performances of drummers. Among them was a combiner named Tilba from the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Tilba began his speech by the fact that “on behalf of the Bashkir combiners-Stakhanovites” greeted Stalin. Immediately after that, he told the those present: “Comrades, I am the son of a fist. My father was dispossessed in 1930 and sent. ” Then Tilba told how in just a few years he went to the “best combine of the state farm”, how much hektarov removed the land and saved fuel. The announcement of record indicators was accompanied by applause. “Although the local authorities did not send me to Moscow as a delegate, but Comrade Yakovlev, thanks to him, called me as the best combine. Although I and the son of a fist, I will honestly fight for the work of workers and peasants and for building socialism, ”continues Tilba. Further in the newspaper, Stalin’s replica “The Son for the Father does not answer” is indicated, the speaker proclaims: “Long live the Communist Party, our leader Comrade Stalin!”, The applause and cries of “Hurray!” Sounds, Tilba clicks his hands sitting in the presidium.