Word: alliluyeva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, when a left-wing Paris daily said she hated life in the U.S. and longed to return to Russia, Svetlana Alliluyeva felt compelled to reply. Writing from Princeton, N.J., to a friend in Paris, Joseph Stalin's daughter stated she would "never return to Russia." In fact, "last summer, when Moscow began to sling mud at me, I threw my Soviet passport in the fire." Far from disliking the U.S., continued Svetlana, she finds increasing joy in the kindness of Americans and wishes the 16-year-old daughter she left in Russia could meet America...
...Bodley Head publishers, who plan to issue it Aug. 1. Eventually, the Soviets apparently got fed up with all the illicit excitement about the book. Victor Louis, a Moscow-based journalist who has run such other errands for the Russian government as selling a copy of Svetlana Alliluyeva's Twenty Letters to a Friend before its authorized publication, delivered a manuscript to London's Flegon Press; its fate is still uncertain...
...book by Alliluyeva...
...marriage. As a 33-year-old artillery lieutenant, Yakov was taken prisoner near Smolensk in World War II's early days. Stalin was so enraged that he had Yakov's Jewish wife thrown into prison on suspicion that she had somehow weakened his will to fight. Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Stalin's second marriage, remembers that her brother Vasily (who died in a drunken auto accident in 1962) brought home handbills bearing a picture of Yakov that the Germans had dropped over Moscow to prove that they had taken Stalin...
...Dracula movies? Perhaps a new submarine? Those glorious guesses were obtained when 2,000 Britons were asked to identify U Thant. Only 58% of the chaps in the street could place U Thant correctly as U.N. Secretary-General. Ah well, he still made out better than Svet-Icma Alliluyeva, who was identified by 51% as Franco's daughter, Khrushchev's daughter, or "the religious bloke with the Beatles...