Word: svetla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father's paranoid suspicions, and "the life of almost everyone was cut short in some tragic fashion" -prison, firing squad, madness. When the Germans captured Svetlana's half brother Yakov during the war, Stalin refused to exchange him for a Nazi general and Yakov was executed. Svetla na's brother Vasily, an air force lieutenant general at 24, became an alcoholic and an embezzler and' died a ruin. In telling all this, she shows a natural eloquence only occasionally marred by sentimentality...
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