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Stuff you don't learn in history class
> Wisconsin last week closed a haunting chapter of the Cold War that began
> when Svetlana Alliluyeva famously defected to the U.S. in 1967.
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> But to her daughter in Portland, the death of the woman who became known as
> Lana Peters was the loss of her best friend and confidant.
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“Portland granddaughter of Josef Stalin remembers her mother as a talented
writer and lecturer in her own right | OregonLive.com [1]”
Huh.
I never knew Stalin's [2] daughter defected to the United States. And I
wonder what it's like to grow up with such an infamous grandfather like that
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[1]
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/portland_granddaug
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
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