Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926)
The youngest child of Joseph Stalin, and his only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva caused a furor when she defected to the West in the 1960s, leaving behind her two grown children in the process. After becoming a naturalized US citizen, she published two successful memoirs, married, took the name Lana Peters, had a daughter, and divorced. In 1984, she returned to the USSR and renounced her defection, but her resolve soon wavered. How long was it before she left again for the West? More… Discuss
I hadn’t heard of her. What a woman!
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I learned a lot from the article myself! Thanks for commenting!
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My pleasure, you are a discerning guy. I wish I had your weather, too. 🙂
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Raining finally raining! Can’t do my walking exercise!
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Warmth and rain would take away the ice and snow banks. That would be nice. 🙂
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absolutely! We were really dry around here, and now we’re flooded! but with all the catch basins reservoirs etc, we’re almont at rationing levels…except for the from lawn, no matter how small of large, it better be green…
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