Tuesday 26 June 2018

194) Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (born Stalina; 1926 – 2011), later known as Lana Peters. Youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international sensation when she defected to the United States and, in 1978, became a naturalized citizen. From 1984 to 1986, she briefly returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship reinstated. She was Stalin's last surviving child.

- "On 15 August 1942 Winston Churchill saw her in Stalin's private apartments in the Kremlin, describing her as "a handsome red-haired girl, who kissed her father dutifully."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alliluyeva

- "He adored her: her freckles and red hair resembled those of his mother Keke..." https://erenow.org/biographies/stalinthecourtoftheredtsar/64.php


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