Word: svetlana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first marriage. As a 33-year-old artillery lieutenant, Yakov was taken prisoner near Smolensk in World War II's early days. Stalin was so enraged that he had Yakov's Jewish wife thrown into prison on suspicion that she had somehow weakened his will to fight. Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Stalin's second marriage, remembers that her brother Vasily (who died in a drunken auto accident in 1962) brought home handbills bearing a picture of Yakov that the Germans had dropped over Moscow to prove that they had taken Stalin...
Moscow's lingering chagrin over Svetlana Alliluyeva's defection may have been mitigated somewhat last week by the spectacle of four earnest young Americans describing to Russian audiences their desertion from the aircraft carrier Intrepid as a protest against the Viet Nam war. "They're playing it big," sighed a U.S. official. Twice aired on Soviet television and displayed in Pravda, the self-proclaimed "patriotic deserters" were in Moscow in transit to a neutral country where they might "give all our strength to the struggle against the immoral, inhuman...
TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. Stalin's daughter shines a beam of light into dark Kremlin corners as she tells how her friends and family were scythed by purges...
TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. The dark but often poignant revelations of Stalin's daughter about life with father...
TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. The dark and poignant revelations of Stalin's daughter about life with father...