Word: svetlana
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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...
...Svetlana's politics lay on the far right. She declared the conservative National Review to be her favorite publication and sent Editor William F. Buckley a $500 donation in 1981. Last August Donald Denman, a retired Cambridge University professor, invited her to visit the House of Commons to see British democracy at work. As they strolled through Westminster, Denman offered to introduce Svetlana to some Members of Parliament. A look of horror passed over her face. "I don't want to meet any Socialists," she said. "Only Tories...
...superb wartime commander in chief. Says Stalin Biographer Robert C. Tucker: "The Soviet authorities evidently thought it was a good time for Stalin's daughter to come home." No doubt they were aware of her emotional turmoil. Anticipating that an official emissary from Moscow would be rebuffed by Svetlana, they apparently decided to use her son Joseph, Stalin's namesake, as their intermediary...
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...
...Svetlana did not immediately tell Olga that she was going to take her to the Soviet Union. Instead, she attempted to cut the child's lifeline to the U.S.--perhaps her cruelest act. Wildly misconstruing a letter from Margedant Hayakawa, Svetlana sought to convince Olga that her aunt no longer cared for her. Olga then signed a typed letter that said she would stop writing to all members of the Peters family. At least one line of the letter sounded more like Svetlana than Olga: "All right, kill me, send me a letter bomb if you like." Says Olga...