Stalin's daughter flees to the west


On the morning of March 6, 1967, a well-dressed woman entered the US embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi.



In good English, but with a strong Russian accent, the woman asks for political asylum in the USA.

When the embassy staff wanted to take down the woman's personal details, the pen almost fell out of their hands in surprise: the woman is none other than Swjetlana Jossifowna Stalina, the daughter of the dictator Jossif Stalin, who died exactly 68 years ago yesterday!



Swjetlana Stalin, the daughter of the All-Powerful, was born in Moscow in 1926, was raised by nannies and private tutors and learned several foreign languages, first of all German. She grew up with two older brothers, Wassilij (1921-1962)...



... and Jakow (1907-1943)...:



Stalin himself did not care much about his children, even if the pictures are supposed to say otherwise!





Swjetlana's mother Nadeshda Alliluewa ...



… Died on November 9, 1932, when Swetlana was six years old. The mother's death was officially portrayed as a result of appendicitis. Other theories see a suicide, a murder on behalf of Stalin or by his hand as the cause.
In any case, it is guaranteed that Stalin insulted and beaten his wife the night before at one of the notorious and feared drinking orgies in the Kremlin!

At the age of 16 Swjetlana fell in love with the Jewish filmmaker Alexei Kapler (1903– ?)...:



Stalin, the sole ruler, naturally also wanted to choose the right man for his daughter.

Stalin did not agree! Off to the prison camp in Workuta with Kappler!

Second candidate: Grigorij Morozov...



... a fellow student at Moscow University: after a lot of arguments and even more tears, the dictator allowed the marriage in a very small circle, but refused to see the husband or even to shake his hand for the rest of his life. He didn't give up until the couple divorced in 1947. Out of the marriage give birth to a son, Jossif.

The third candidate and husband number two was the philosopher and chemist Jurij Shdanow (1919-2006)...



... the son of the Politburo member Andrej Zhdanov, the defender of Leningrad during the German blockade,. The couple married in 1949 and had a daughter, Ekaterina, in 1950. The marriage ended in divorce in the fall of 1952 when Shdanow Sr. fell out of favor with Stalin.

In 1953, after the death of her father, Svetlana Stalina took her mother's surname and called herself Alliluyeva. In Moscow she worked as a teacher and translator.

Allegedly there was supposed to have been another marriage to a Georgian named Alexandrovich Svanidze, but that's speculation!

So on March 6, 1967, Stalin's daughter asked for US asylum in New Delhi. The Americans are just as aware of the explosive power of the matter as the propaganda benefits that can be derived from it!

Swjetlana Allilujewa / Stalina is flown to Switzerland immediately and comes to the USA after six weeks. She left her children in the USSR.

She is literally shown ...:







In the USA she wrote various books about life at the court of Stalin, all of which, however, contain historically questionable content.In the USA she wrote various books about life at the court of Stalin, all of which, however, contain historically questionable content.



And she's getting married again!

Her next husband is the architect William Wesley Peters (1912–1991)...



... a long-time employee of the famous Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom she had a daughter, Olga, in 1971.

In 1973 the couple divorced. Swjetlana settled in Cambridge with Olga.

And then she changes sides again!

In 1984 she returned to the Soviet Union. The Soviet state leaves them unscathed and feasts on the propaganda success of the defector! She is allowed to give a few press conferences, but then disappears again from public life. Svjetlana lived in Georgia's capital Tbilisi for several years.



This time was mainly characterized by the most violent feuds with the other family members.

In 1986 she sent her 15-year-old daughter Olga back to the West. The daughter attended a school in Saffron Walden near Cambridge in Great Britain.

Swjetlana also moved to the UK in the late 1980s. According to her own statements, she was impoverished in 1990 and lived with her daughter in a rented house in Bristol

In 1996 Swetlana moved back to the USA. She took the surname of her American husband, who was divorced and died in 1991. Most recently she lived as Lana Peters in a retirement home in Richland Center, Wisconsin, not far from her temporary residence with Wes Peters, who was chairman of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation there until his death.



The lives of their brothers were completely different:

Jakow Stalin was taken prisoner by Germany as an officer in the Red Army in 1941.



Stalin demonstratively refused to have him exchanged, even though there was a corresponding German offer, as prisoners were considered "traitors" in his eyes.

Jakow died in prisoner-of-war custody - he is said to have committed suicide when he threw himself into the electrically charged fence of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on April 14, 1943, where he was a prominent prisoner.


Wassilij Stalin served in the Red Air Force - and, thanks to his prominent father, made it to the position of highly distinguished general...:



After the death of his father, the severely alcoholic man was arrested on April 28, 1953 and sentenced to eight years in prison. Subsequently, he was imprisoned in the Vladimirovka prison camp in Vladimir until 1960 and repeatedly in sanatoriums and medical institutions.

He died on March 19, 1962 at Kazan as a result of alcoholism.

Interesting and so much better without personal opinion thrown in. Just a reporting of the facts.

Cheers

Bill