In the course of World War II, children of Soviet leaders frequently participated in the fighting together with regular soldiers: among them was Stalin’s son, who was taken prisoner by the Germans (and ended up dying in captivity), artillery battery commander Yakob Dzhugashvili; then there was Khruschev’s son - pilot Leonid Khruschev, who died during combat in 1943.
Occasionally, children of major figures of global communism from around the world also came to the defense of the Soviet Union in the fight against Nazi Germany. This way, in 1941, outside Moscow, Zarko Broz, the son of Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito, lost his arm; then, there was the son of famous Spanish communist Dolores Ibarruri Gomez - machine gun company commander Ruben Ruiz Ibarruri, who perished in the Battle of Stalingrad.
