Matthew Janney

‘I was frightened every single day’: the perils of guarding Stalin

Alex Halberstadt elicits some painful memories from his reluctant grandfather, once Stalin’s bodyguard

Anyone close to Stalin lived under sentence of death. Credit: Alamy
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  • Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning

    Alex Halberstadt

    Jonathan Cape, pp. 320, £14

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