Word: svetlana
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...happy families resemble one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Last week the nation was witness to a touching insight into the happiness and unhappiness of one Russian family - that of Dictator Joseph Stalin, whose only daughter, third and last child and sole surviving offsprinig, Svetlana Allilueva Stalina, 42, recently dissociated herself from both Communism and the chance catastrophe of her birth...
...minute press conference-staged by the public relations firm of Hill & Knowltoa and telecast live from Manhattan's' Plaza Hotel - Svetlana maintained a sweet Slavic charm and a rosy-cheeked, auburn-haired innocence, despite her first exposure to a free press and although one reporter was frisked by private detectives on the way in. She also displayed a dedication to liberty that stood in sharp if glossy contrast to her family background. More surprising was her spirited defense of her father-a demonstration that even a dictator with the blood of some 9,000,000 kulaks and political...
...that I have lost quite a lot with his death," said Svetlana in her clumsy but barely accented English, "because he was also for me the authority which could not be-well. I loved him, I respected him, and when he was gone I have lost maybe a lot of faith." She lost a lot more as well: after Stalin's death in 1953 and his denunciation before the 20th Party Congress of 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev, Svetlana became an extension of the Stalin era and thus a liability to the Soviet leadership. "I had perhaps something what...
Decision to Defect. Twice married and twice divorced during the days when she was the apple of her father's eye, Svetlana applied in the early 1960s to marry Brajesh Singh, an Indian Communist living in Moscow. She was refused permission, an act that she found "disgustful." Trained as a writer and English translator, Svetlana was also aware that she could never publish her autobiography-a Life-With-Father memoir that the Kremlin would not allow to be printed. When Singh fell seriously ill last year with a respiratory ailment, he and Svetlana were not allowed to return...
Only after Singh's death was Svetlana permitted to bring his ashes to his birthplace. There she made her decision to defect. "My husband has died in Moscow, and his death exactly made me absolutely intolerant to the things to which I was rather tolerant before," said Svetlana. "I can mention also the courts, the trial of [Underground Writers] Sinyavsky and Daniel, which produced a horrible impression on all the intellectuals in Russia and on me also, and I can say that I lost the hopes which I had before that we are going to become liberal somehow...