Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next Joseph told his mother, "It's time we got together." He said that he thought he would be allowed to meet her in Finland. Once the possibility of a reunion became fixed in Svetlana's mind, it could not be dislodged. For this desperate woman, seeing Joseph appeared to herald a new beginning. Joseph then told Svetlana that he had not been granted permission after all to travel to Finland. Svetlana was shattered. Some time in July he raised her hopes again by saying he might be able to come to Cambridge before Christmas, but in August...
Perhaps unwittingly, Joseph kept his mother on the line for nine months, playing with her much as an angler does when hauling in a fighting fish. Judging from what Svetlana told acquaintances in Cambridge and London, she was reeled in stage by stage. First, just before Christmas 1983, a phone call came from Joseph in Moscow. As the excited Svetlana related it, she had scarcely heard from either of her children in the Soviet Union for 17 years. Joseph, now 38 and a physician, and Katya, 33 and a scientist, had been forbidden to communicate with their mother since...
...want to go. The 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...
...matter of days after her return, Svetlana had quarreled with Joseph; Katya, who lives in the Soviet Far East, did not come to Moscow to see her mother. When U.S. television cameramen spotted Svetlana looking grim and angry on the streets of the capital, she went out of control, showering them with obscenities in English. Dissatisfied by the cool official welcome she received, she has several times displayed her temper to the Soviet authorities. Olga, who, like her mother, still retains her U.S. citizenship, refused to wear the regulation uniform at a Moscow school. She came to class with...
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...