Stalin's Daughter Lana Peters

Public Criticism
When Svetlana finished her first autobiography, Twenty Letters to a Friend in 1967, and she gave an interview discussing the book on public television the day it was published on October 2, 1967. As she began living in the United States, she became critical of the Soviet Union, publicly burning her Soviet passport and vowing never to return to the country, and calling her father a "moral and spiritual monster," according to The New York Times. Though both she and anti-Soviet sentiments in the United States took pride in her views, she publicly acknowledged missing her children, who remained in the USSR.

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