Yuri Zhigalkin: In the U.S., in Wisconsin in a nursing home died Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. According to her daughter, Olga, his mother passed away surrounded by loved ones. Lana Peters - under that name Stalin's daughter has lived the last thirty years - it was 85 years old. In '41 Stalin's daughter fled from the Soviet Union.
Svetlana Alliluyeva Escape from the Soviet Union in 1967, its appearance in the United States as a political refugee, her statement that she ran to get the opportunity to express themselves, that she does not believe in communism, it became in the eyes of Americans, one of the .
Her memories of ' Twenty Letters to a Friend ', which she brought with her, were quickly translated into English, and immediately became a bestseller. Western readers have heard the testimony of despotism ' Great Leader ' directly from the lips of his daughter.
' He was a very simple man, very rude and very cruel ... More than two decades of his life after a brief attempt to return to the Soviet Union, it has almost disappeared from view. It is known that for years she had lived in voluntary exile in the American heartland, in the state Viskosin in a nursing home, where she was known as Lana Peters - that name she took when she married in the U.S..
When asked about how was perceived in the sixties escaped Stalin's daughter from the Soviet Union, meets Professor Marshall Goldman, a member of the Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University:.
This episode looked like a triumph of the West. It was kind of cold war trophy. Imagine, the daughter of former dictator, symbolizing the regime that runs from the Soviet Union, appears in New York and gives a press conference, which condemned the communist regime. It was a heavy ideological defeat of Moscow. Then, in certain American circles, and in the world, even going debate about whether the Soviet system to become even how - ever a viable model, an alternative western.
And then there is Stalin's daughter, and says she can no longer live there. It is hard to imagine that anyone could seriously argue about the advantages of the Soviet system, but escapes, Svetlana Alliluyeva was one of the events that helped to dispel these illusions.
- What feelings the news of the death of Stalin's daughter?.
- Empathy. She tried to lead a normal life, but how can you live a normal life, when the burden on you the name of Stalin, the burden of his sins. She was doomed, it can be called a tragic fate. I honestly feel sympathy for her.
For the historian Richard Pipes, Svetlana Alliluyeva was also a tragic figure:.
- Her escape from the Soviet Union, of course, became a major sensation. She wrote two good books, but soon discovered that she, if I may say so, was a lost man. She tossed from side to side, from country to country, she could not find a place in this world.
In my opinion, the story of Svetlana Alliluyeva will remember it as a personal drama, as an example of the tragic fate.
Her life - one of the most striking illustrations of the era: the daughter of the leader, the dictator was a stranger in a free society, where she was so eager to. It was also largely a victim of Stalin's.
Svetlana Alliluyeva Joseph (nee Stalin in exile - Lana Peters, English. Lana Peters; February 28, 1926, Leningrad, USSR - November 22, 2011, Richland, Wisconsin, United States - Soviet scholar and translator, Ph.D., memoirist.
Became widely known as the daughter and. In. Stalin, whose life has left a number of works in the genre of memoir. In 1967 he emigrated from the USSR to the United States - Wikipedia notes.
In first marriage - wife of the Soviet legal scholar F. and. Morozov, in the second - the wife of Corresponding Member of the USSR SE. A. Zhdanov, the daughter of the Registrar of the CPSU ( b) A. A. Zhdanov. Mother of Russian cardiologist and. T. Alliluyeva.
Born in a family of the Secretary-General of the CPSU ( b) of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Studied in 25 g of an exemplary school. Moscow (1932-1943), graduated with distinction.
Received at MSU. First she studied at the Faculty of Philology. Then he got sick. On his return came in the first year, but the Faculty of History. Choose to specialize in the department of modern and contemporary history, Germany was engaged in. She graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University and graduate of the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee.
Ph.D. in Philology. She worked as a translator from English and literary editor, has done translations of several books, including works by British Marxist philosopher John Lewis.
In 1944, she married Gregory Morozov, a classmate of her brother Vasily Stalin. Subsequently, the marriage was unofficially canceled. Son of Joseph Alliluyev (1945-2008) was a cardiologist, a doctor of medical sciences. In 1949 she married Yuri Zhdanov, the son of a Politburo member. Zhdanov. Jury adopted her first son, Svetlana. Daughter Catherine Zhdanov (genus. 1950 ).
She worked at the Institute of World Literature from 1956 to 1967.
In May 1962, baptized in Moscow and baptized children at the Fr Nicholas Golubtsova.
In 1967, she left for India to take part in the funeral Brajesh Singh (who was in some interview with her husband called her ) was the ...
Moving to the West and the subsequent publication of ...
For a while she stopped in Switzerland, then lived in the U.S..
In 1970 he married an American architect in the. In. Peters, had a daughter (Olga Peters, later - Chris Evans (Chrese Evans)), divorced in 1972, but retained the name Lana Peters. Alliluyeva lived on the money earned by literary work, and donations received from individuals and organizations.
In 1982 Alliluyeva moved from U.S. to England, to Cambridge, where his daughter Olga, who was born in America, came to the Quaker boarding school.