Word: svetlana
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...When Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, defected to the U.S. almost 20 years ago and declared her homeland a "prison," the West enjoyed a huge propaganda coup. When she redefected to the Soviet Union in 1984, the Soviets could claim their own victory after she said that she had not been free for "one single day" while living in the U.S. Last week Svetlana again returned to American soil. But this time neither East nor West had much to say, perhaps in recognition that her restless wanderings are intensely personal and have little to do with ideologies...
...Svetlana's trip came one day after her American-born daughter Olga, 14, left Moscow on an Aeroflot flight to London. She is resuming studies at a Quaker school that she had been attending when her mother abruptly took her to the Soviet Union. When asked what she had missed about the West, the girl gushed, "Just the whole thing." Nonetheless, she had nothing negative to say about the Soviet Union, describing her 18-month sojourn there as a "great experience." Olga's father is Architect William Wesley Peters, 73, who was divorced from the volatile Svetlana three years after...
...Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, first made headlines in 1967 when, during a trip to India, she defected to the West. In 1984 she was back in the news when she unexpectedly returned to the Soviet Union with her American-born daughter Olga. Once in Moscow, Svetlana bitterly charged that in the West she had been "not free for one single...
...Svetlana, who has been living in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and reportedly quarreling with her two Soviet-born children, seems to have had yet another change of heart. Last week the U.S. embassy in Moscow confirmed that she had visited the consular section. While the details of the visit are unknown, Svetlana is believed to have sought a visa to go West...
...week's end British diplomats in both London and Moscow announced that Olga, 15, has been given a British visa, and will return to Britain before the end of the month to re-enroll in a Quaker school that she formerly attended. There were no indications that Svetlana would follow her daughter...