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1969: Stalin’s Daughter on Defecting From the Soviet Union

1969: Stalin’s Daughter on Defecting From the Soviet Union

This programme contains discussion of suicide.

Robin Day talks to Svetlana Allileyua, the daughter of the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin. Sveltana caused a political sensation when, in 1967, she defected to the United States during a trip to India to scatter the ashes of her Indian lover.
Credit to : BBC Archive

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