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RIP Svetlana ... I grive over your passing away Nov 22, 2011. I never met you but purchased your book, 'Twenty Letters to a Friend." I toured Moscow in August 2003 and it left a deep impredssion on me the culture, history and people. I am so happy to hear that you did believe in GOD. I know your father Josef Stalin will stand before GOD as judge as we ALL will. You are innocent Svetlana. God bless you dear and brave friend, Svetlana. Hugs to you ... XXX God bless.

I met her briefly in San Anselmo when she visited St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church. I was an altar boy back then. Her daughter was born at Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, in the mid-1960s. We discovered a photograph of her, Father Boris and my Uncle Seraphim recently. What irony that those three would meet under those conditions.

Actually I wouldn't use Stalins name to slander his daughter, there is 3 reasons for this, 1. Svetlana and Stalin loved each other very much, she was Stalins favorite and Svetlana learned accurately about atrocities what her father made after Stalins death. 2. She had difficulties to agree with others about her father being a monster, because Stalin was maybe even overprotective of his daughter and made sure she didn't saw his dark side 3. Only huge problem she caused was her first marriage.

Rest in peace.....Svetlana Alliluyeva!

Poor lady. She never quite had a normal life. The tribulations she went through made her attempts at love, friendships and a normal family virtually implausible.

Now available on Amazon by Icarus. I guess its time to get online crash course in the world of history through the eyes of Stalin`s daughter....though, she didn`t like to be called like that and was an amazing intellectual with a different legacy on her own, and a complex past.

Svetlana was in her early 20's when Stalin died which is quite young age to fully even take part in any other thing than studying in communist country. Communists adore studying and hard work I'm Finnish and even-though I was born in 1988, I still remember the school propaganda which was adopted from Soviet Russia and USSR propaganda they sped to other countries of the world and it gave totally different image about communism in children's and young naive persons eyes than what it really was.

Does anyone know about this film? Online anywhere?

is there any place online from where i can see the whole documentary? can some one recommend me a link ??

@Katamanteuomos Regarding the death of her mother. Alliluyeva - it's mother's surname. Svetlana took it when she learned the truth about her death.

i dont understand a word on that video. is there one with english subtitles that is on the internet?

Did you ever upload it?

Svetlana had very similar personality with her father, they used to lost quicky temper and had an enormous ego

@358423 She took the surname Peters only at 1970, when she married William Peters. Prior to that, she remained Alliluyeva.

I think Stalin's daughter is a good woman, as were many of Stalin's relatives. It is clear that she tried tp stop many of her father's excesses, and on some occasions did so. He father was advised and mainpulated by that monster Beria. Svetlana stayed always loyal to her father, no matter their disagreements, and the way others, his so called friends (mainly Kruschev) were disloyal in the end.

Poor poor woman, never worked in her life.

I know. But at first I thought she was worthy of havin my last name. But she has proven herself to be a traitor.

Daddy's little girl. Awww.

@attractivue OK. I wouldn't call myself "pro-Stalnist". I just like to get the facts without all the political bias. Let's be honest. Many world leaders at this time were responsible for the deaths of millions, directly or indrctly. It could be argued that Chamberlain's decision to declare war on Germany was the root cause of WW2, which eventuated in the Holocaust. I wouldn't blame him solely for WW2 though. It was the way they did things then. We know better now. :)

@attractivue Well. I can't see that blaming this lady is the solution to your problems. I admire her a hell of a lot more that some other American people around. She seems like a very nice lady, with compassion, one I would be proud to have as a friend. Many business leaders in the United States sack 1000s of their workers, destroying families and entire communities. This lady has not done this. And yet, Americans admire the business leader so much, and hate this lady. To me it is all crap.

@athompson7 He conducted nation-building on a pile of bodies. As one biographer wrote, "His solution to every problem was death." Others have argued the Soviet Union would have been better off without him when the Nazis invaded.

@trupoed11 Her surname at birth was Stalina, because it is her father's surname. She took the surname Alliluyeva, when moved to the United States.

Yes, because the truth is hidden from them.

@mamc1986 It was a rhetorical question.

Only in America could the daughter of a dictator end up in Wisconsin. Great film on a great person with tremendous courage to leave the USSR.

she died today, in America. RIP

I wonder if she demanded her about such personalities as Jezhov the bloody dwarf or Beria. And what she's really thinking about her mothers and brothers deaths. Or about vanishing of all Russian literature in 30-40s..

@RespectMyHate Which makes it far more interesting than heaven.

Svetlana Stalin. Not worthy of being a Stalin. She betrayed me. Almost near Trotsky level.

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i guess its one of those questions media flock to because the readers so greatly want to know... what would it be like to have had a mass murderer as a father? what is it like to face death without dellusions (as an athiest)?

A lot of stupid commentaries here. This lady had a difficult life and we can not compare her life with the victims of stalinist regime. The crimes of her father do not make her nor a villain, nor a hero, nor anything. She always tried to have her own life. And that is what she is still trying. You should have some respect and stop this useless ideological discussions. This movie is not about Soviet Union, Stalin, purges or anything of that sort.

@squamish4244 I'm not judging her!

@swanningaround I never blamed this woman buddy, it was YOUR comment that hinted that you might be a pro Stalinist because you said, 'oh he only killed 20 million people which is a small number compared to the population of the Earth".

Ironic isn't it, she was everything her father wasn't she even studied English and American history!

@attractivue Sure. There were around 1900 million people in the world in 1935. 20 million is only a fraction of this number, one percent. Most of them are dead now. think about it!

@RespectMyHate Oh I thought you said he was going to hell just as a statement, else, I don't believe in this ridiculous concept of heaven or hell, evil or good, god or satan. I stopped believing in those right about when I realized Santa Claus, Little Red Riding Hood, and Peter Pan don't exist. But heck, if you want to believe in fairy tales and kid stories, go ahead! No need to be rude about it.

@swanningaround WOW, thts a really nice way to thi nk about it, how about some of those 20 million people were your family members or perhaps you? But then again, why should we care about you? You just would have been another number in the vast population!

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No! Don't say shame on Joseph Stalins daughter. Viva Stalin!

Stalin was a brutal man he killed a lot of people more than Lenin but for the reason of advancement.. So you can say that he made millions of people suffer - mostly Russians-.....