Svetlana (39)

Svetlana
martin Ebon

In 1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana defected to the U.S. This is her story as told by someone else. She leaves Russia after Xmas 1966 to take the cremated remains of her Indian husband to his country. While there she decides she can not go back to her country and begins a quest for someone who will take her.
The most interesting parts of the story are the parts dealing with her childhood and a touch of information on her father. It is amazing that Joseph Stalin probably killed more people than Hilter (and his one people at that) and started a system that reminding me of 1984 complete with 'revised' history as people fell out of favor.. yet little is know about him, and his is not the symbol of all evil as Hilter is.
One interesting note... after she left her country the disgraced head of KGB was replaced by on older more experienced man.. Yuri V. Andropov.. who would go on to become head of The Soviet Union in 1982