Svetlana Alliluyeva
Joseph Stalin's daughter (1926-2011) · United States · Writers · Died at 85
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Something wrong?Stalin's daughter walked out of the Soviet Union in 1967 and into American citizenship, carrying a name the world couldn't forget and a father whose shadow never lifted.
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Svetlana Alliluyeva 1970
Lavrenti Beria Stalins family
Iskolai csoportkép. A képen szerepel Szvetlana Joszifovna Sztalina és Alekszej Andrejevics Tupoljev is. Fortepan 101086
Joseph Stalin with daughter Svetlana, 1935
Stalin and his two children Vasily and Svetlana
Svetlana Alliluyeva 1967
Svetlana Alliluyeva 1967crIn their own words 4
, People say, 'Stalin's daughter, Stalin's daughter,' meaning I'm supposed to walk around with a rifle and shoot the Americans," she once said. Or they say, 'No, she came here.
When my mother left us, he [Stalin] was left completely alone.
You are one of those obsessed demoniacal creatures who ought to be avoided at all costs; they bring misfortune into the lives of others; they ruin the lives of others.
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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva was born 28 February 1926, the youngest child and only daughter of Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She lived as Stalina until 1967, when her defection to the United States made her an international sensation - the dictator's daughter choosing the West. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1978, later taking the name Lana Peters. In 1984 she reversed course, briefly returning to the Soviet Union and reclaiming Soviet citizenship before leaving again in 1986. She died 22 November 2011, the last of Stalin's children still living.
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