Word: svetlana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixtyish grammar teacher for a chance to recite. Not until late in the lesson did she call on him. Then he answered correctly in a bashful voice, hastily sat down. Vasya is in the fifth grade (equivalent of a U. S. seventh grade) while his seven-year-old sister Svetlana is in the first grade (U. S. second). They go to school, not in a Government limousine, but as their mother used to travel, in Moscow's overcrowded tramcars. In the main floor corridor they daily see an heroic picture of their great father but they get no special...
...first few years of their life together Stalin, the suspicious Asiatic husband, used to lock up Nadezhda Sergeivna Alliluieva in commodious rooms every morning and spend the day with the key in his pocket. She bore him at that time two children?Vassily, today a lad of 12 and Svetlana...
Fellow students call Mrs. Stalin merely "Comrade Alliluieva," consider it right & natural that she should leave her six-year-old daughter Svetlana and eleven-year-old son Vassily at home, while she pursues "important studies." As every Russian knows, Dictator Stalin thinks that women should get out of the home and work, preferably in industry or, if they are too stupid for that, then sweeping streets, digging ditches, plowing & sowing...