Word: daughters
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...40th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany. For the first time since 1956, Stalin was being praised as a strategic genius and a superb wartime commander in chief. Says Stalin Biographer Robert C. Tucker: "The Soviet authorities evidently thought it was a good time for Stalin's daughter to come home." No doubt they were aware of her emotional turmoil. Anticipating that an official emissary from Moscow would be rebuffed by Svetlana, they apparently decided to use her son Joseph, Stalin's namesake, as their intermediary...
...Mansfields heard the yelling in the flat below. At first they thought it was another one of Svetlana's tirades. Then they realized it was Olga who was shouting. "Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you consult with me?" Two days later mother and daughter were in Moscow. Said Svetlana's old friend Labedz when he heard the news: "She has gone back to her fatherland, or her father--to her they're the same...
Last month the authorities moved Svetlana out of Moscow, in an apparent effort to insulate her from contact with diplomats and other foreigners to whom she might complain. Mother and daughter were dispatched 1,000 miles south to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, not far from Stalin's birthplace. Svetlana was given a modest apartment but no car, dacha or any of the other perquisites that families of the Soviet elite enjoy...
...though my father was at the center of a black circle," she wrote in 1963. "Anyone who ventured inside vanished or perished or was destroyed in one way or another." The question is whether, three decades after Stalin's death, the circle will close around his daughter and granddaughter...
...reversed earlier this month in NBC's A Reason to Live, in which a well-adjusted 14-year-old (Ricky Schroder) tried to talk his despondent father out of suicide. Last week, in CBS's Not My Kid, two parents were shattered to discover that their 15-year-old daughter (Viveka Davis) was a drug abuser. Still to come: a college student (Barry Tubb) will tell his unsuspecting parents that he is homosexual in ABC's Consenting Adult, and a family will grapple with the problem of child molestation in CBS's Kids Don't Tell...