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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva [a] (born Stalina; [b] 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, [citation needed] was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva.
Mar 24, 2014 · On April 21, 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, bounded down the stairs of a Swissair plane at Kennedy Airport. She was forty-one years old and wore an elegant white...
Jan 17, 2022 · Unsurprisingly, Svetlana’s defection from the Soviet Union was viewed as a major coup by the United States: the daughter of one of the key architects of the regime publicly and vehemently denouncing communism. Svetlana left behind her two children, writing a letter to them to defend her reasoning.
Svetlana Alliluyeva was the Russian-born daughter of Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin; her defection to the United States in 1967 caused an international sensation. She was Stalin’s only daughter and a product of his second marriage with Nadezhda Alliluyeva, who committed suicide in 1932.
Nov 29, 2011 · At her birth, on Feb. 28, 1926, she was named Svetlana Stalina, the only daughter and last surviving child of the brutal Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin.
May 25, 2024 · Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, lived a life shaped by political turmoil, personal tragedy, and a constant struggle to forge her own identity.
May 31, 2015 · Her early childhood—a magical time playing in the country with her grandparents–came to an abrupt end when her mother, Nadya Alliluyeva, committed suicide. Svetlana was just six.