Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unnoticed by the world, she and her American-born daughter Olga Peters, 13, boarded an Aeroflot flight in London bound for Moscow. Once she was back in her homeland, the Soviet press agency TASS announced that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet had granted Svetlana's request that her citizenship be restored and that Soviet citizenship be granted to Olga. Both had been American citizens...
...daughter as a propaganda victory, there would be no dancing in Red Square. Since her 1967 defection, Svetlana had frequently denounced the Soviet regime in books and interviews. She called the Bolshevik revolution a tragedy for Russia and characterized Stalin as "a moral and spiritual monster." Repudiating her Soviet citizenship, she ritually burned her passport...
...were dreaming of a prison from which one had escaped." She vowed, "I shall never return to that prison." For their part, the Soviets branded her a "morally unstable person" who had betrayed her country and abandoned her two children. She was stripped of her Soviet citizenship...
...surprise and concern at her redefection. She had moved from Princeton, N.J., to Cambridge, England, two years ago, had placed Olga in a boarding school and bought an apartment in the university town. Said her former Cambridge landlord, Professor Donald Denman: "I cannot believe she has asked for Russian citizenship or is requiring her daughter to give up her American citizenship." Olga, a bright and popular girl who speaks no Russian, was unhappy in Britain. "She was pining for the U.S.," said Denman. "I don't know how she will manage in Russia...
SEEKING RENATURALIZATION. Zola Budd, 18, bashful, barefoot, adopted British runner whose dreams of Olympic glory ended in defeat and pain when she collided with American Archrival Mary Decker; in an application to regain the South African citizenship she so swiftly surrendered last spring in order to compete in Los Angeles as a Briton and circumvent the Olympic ban on her country's athletes; in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The move effectively ends her international running career and the lucrative endorsement deals that might have accompanied...