Washington: Svetlana Peters , daughter of Josef Stalin, who denounced communism after defecting during the cold war, has died in the US after living out her remaining years there in seclusion, news agencies.
According to an article published in the British newspaper thegurdian, Svetlana Peters had described her father as “a moral and spiritual monster” after the CIA helped her to escape the Soviet Union in 1967 which caused a diplomatic furore
Born Svetlana Stalina, she adopted her mother’s last name, Alliluyeva, following her father’s death in 1953. But she ended her life as Lana Peters – the identity she adopted after claiming political asylum in the US.
After living many years in the public eye, she spent her final days in seclusion. She died of colon cancer on 22 November in Richland County, South Carolina, it emerged. She was 85.
Frequently moving countries, sampling religions from Hinduism to Christian science, the four-times married Peters lived a life which could grace the pages of any novel, and saw her tales inside the Soviet Union earn her two best-selling autobiographies.
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