The sad, strange life of Joseph Stalin's daughter

The first sentence of Svetlana Alliluyeva’s obituary was set from her birth in 1926, for she was the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, the notorious Soviet dictator, and one of the worst mass murderers in history. “Wherever I go, whether to Australia or some island, I will always be the political prisoner of my father’s name,” she said. Indeed, it’s by reading those obituaries that biographer Rosemary Sullivan decided there was a dramatic story that needed to be told.

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