38 years ago today, on November 2, 1984, Stalin's daughter returned to the Soviet Union from the United States after 17 years of fleeing the Soviet Union.
1. Daughter
Svetlana, Stalin's only daughter, was born in 1926 and her father gave her this name.
Its source is a Russian romantic poem, which means "light and shadow".
She is the jewel in her father's eye and is very favored.
"She likes to put me on her knees and hug me tightly."
(Svetlana and her father)
"Little Sparrow", "Little Things", "Host Master", "No. 1 Secretary"... are all the father's love for her.
As a leader feared by outsiders, he even allowed the little "maid" to send orders to himself at home:
"My first secretary Comrade Stalin, orders you to allow me to go to movies or plays with you. The maid Xie Tanka (Svetlana's nickname)."
"As for orders, complete the task immediately!"
parent-child game, warm as ordinary people.
Svetlana recalled in her later years that her childhood was happy, "No matter what, it can be said to live in heaven."
6, the first misfortune in her life came, and her young mother committed suicide.
The paradise of childhood is gradually fading away.
10 years old, she wore a dress that was less than her knees and was quarreled by her father.
In the eyes of the elderly in Georgian , short skirts, short socks, and short sleeves are all unacceptable.
The growth of her daughter has given her her own opinions and persistence. In the eyes of the father, the daughter is becoming more and more independent, and is not as obedient and cute as she was when she was a child.
This made her get further and further away from her father.
16 years old, she was in love with a 40-year-old film director while studying at Moscow University.
When the father's guard discovered the indecent facts between her and the man, the angered father slapped her:
"Now the war is like this, but you did this... There are so many women around him, you are a fool!"
The unconcealed sternness of her father deeply hurt her feelings. From then on, she no longer missed this fatherly love.
2 years later, she married a college student at the same school. However, what her father still unacceptable was that the boy was a Jewish .
The following year, my father didn't accept them either. Even, he never let the son-in-law enter the house.
In 1947, 21-year-old Svetlana's relationship with her husband broke down. Two years later, according to his father's opinion, he married an official's son and gave birth to a daughter the following year.
In 1952, 26-year-old Svetlana divorced again. Her father gave her a villa and she lived alone with her children.
The following year, after her father's death, Svetlana felt that no one would interfere in her life anymore, but the good times did not last long and her life was not satisfactory, especially in terms of marriage and family.
2. Escape
In 1957, Svetlana changed her mother's surname. After a few years, she received the baptism of Orthodox Church, and since then she "can't live without caring for God."
She started writing books. In "20 Letters to Friends", she said that she "had spent 37 years of stupid and meaningless dual life."
That year, he met an Indian named Singh in the hospital who went to Moscow to treat his illness. They fell in love at first sight.
This is her The 4th man .
She wanted to marry him, but was stopped by the relevant departments, saying that this person was 17 years older than her and was sick. Even if her father was there, she would not allow her to marry a foreigner.
(with her first husband)
My father has passed away for 13 years, but she still cannot realize her free life. Svetlana was very desperate. She began to passively escape and left her workplace, the Institute of World Literature History, a Chinese Academy of Sciences.
After living with Singer for more than a year, Singer passed away and she lived a widow again.
In 1966, she applied to the country to go abroad, saying that she would send Singh's ashes to India.
The government approved it and gave her a visa for two weeks.
Once she arrived in India, she tried every means not to go back.
first wrote a letter to a senior Indian official, but after being rejected, he fled to the US Embassy in India, requesting to move to the hostile country of the Soviet Union, the United States.
The US government did not dare to agree easily, thinking that she was hot-headed, so she coordinated her to Swiss first.
A month and a half later, a relevant US official talked with her in person. Svetlana had decided to decide that would never return to the Soviet Union" .
On April 21, 1967, she finally got what she wanted and boarded a plane to the United States.
At this time, her son and daughter are still in China.
This news shocked the world.
The Soviets accused her of being sorry for her dead father and were even sentenced to the motherland.
Once we arrived in the United States, Svetlana was a celebrity: publishing books, accepting media interviews, revealing the inside story of Kremlin .
The purpose of the United States is very obvious. The reason why it enthusiastically accepts her is to use her and use this absolutely rare insider to criticize, expose and attack the Soviet system.
Her book is best-selling in the United States. Some people estimate that she earns millions of dollars just by publishing books.
Not to mention that she was hired as an expert in Russian issues, she needs a house and a car.
For Svetlana, it is really another "paragraph" in her ideal.
In December 1969, the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union no longer had any hope for her and decided to deprive her of citizenship .
In the United States, Svetlana got married after knowing an American builder for 3 weeks.
44 years old, she started a family again.
However, after truly gaining a life of unrestrainedness in the United States, Svetlana exposed her shortcomings.
For example, she is not good at handling interpersonal relationships and cannot even manage her own marriage and family well.
8 months after giving birth to a daughter with her American husband, she took her daughter, left her husband and started living alone.
For example, she is not good at financial management.
Soon, she found that she didn't have enough money.
Most of the html $15 million you earn from publishing a book were handed over by publishers, brokers, lawyers, and husbands. She only got more than 1 million and had to pay off her husband's debts...
In 1978, after 12 years in the United States, Svetlana finally obtained American nationality. After
, she changed her name to "Lana Peters", which was completely separated from her past.
3. Return to China
After living in the United States for more than ten years, Svetlana became increasingly disappointed with the United States. "In the past, I never realized that the two superpowers were so similar, both good and bad."
She didn't want to be kidnapped by the media and publishers, so she moved to the UK with her daughter.
just want to write a book quietly there and say, "Living a peaceful life."
One day, in Cambridge, she suddenly received a call from her son in the Soviet Union. This was the first time she had heard her son's voice in 117 years.
On the phone, the son advised her to "Come back, mom, we need you."
The waves of emotions instantly collapsed, and sentiment defeated reason once again, and she decided to go back immediately.
On November 2, 1984, Svetlana returned to the Soviet Union after 17 years of separation with her 13-year-old daughter.
Although she "revealed" the attack on the Soviet Union in the United States, the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union immediately restored her nationality.
At this time, she has experienced the pursuit of countless news media, and is very tired of showing up in public and just wants to live a peaceful life.
But this time, she has to face the media.
She decided this was her last interview, so she said a lot of truth and told the reporter that please don’t bother me in the future.
■When talking about the reasons for returning to China, she said that she mainly missed her children who stayed in China very much.
She said that she made the greatest sacrifice for her so-called free life in the United States and "lost a pair of children."
17, they have been unable to communicate or make phone calls, and they have never seen photos of their 10-year-old grandson.
If you don’t return to your country, you may “never meet” them.
■ Speaking of the American free world, she said it was disappointing.
At first, she thought the Western free world too beautifully and too idealized, and was immersed in excitement and her own satisfaction.
But then, she understood what the reality was. "It's too disappointing in many ways."
She said that she was confined to a circle of a few Soviet experts and Russian historians, and later she was no longer popular and "in a false sense."
" The US State Department is not inferior to the Kremlin in terms of lying."
And the Soviet Union also has good aspects, such as, "Millions of people are enjoying free education, everyone has the opportunity to enter higher education institutions, everyone enjoys public medical care, you cannot deny that this is an improvement for the people."
■ Talking about her "defection" in the past , she used herself 17 Years of overseas experience sent a deafening reminder to the world:
"No one treacherous is completely free."
"I want to say to all lurking treacherous people today, don't forget that there are the same humans on the other side of the river, and they also include some imperfect, dull, incompetent, betrayal, and dementia, just like those you abandoned.
"What I didn't understand seventeen years ago is that the two superpowers are so similar in good and bad aspects. "
Svetlana's return is completely an emotional need, and has nothing to do with politics.
However, unfortunately, she once again failed to achieve her long-cherished wish.
At this time, her daughter, who has experienced many political turmoils, has never forgiven her departure back then.
Even though she is now a widow and lives a difficult life with her children, she refuses to meet her mother who returns home.
The stubborn daughter, like her mother, does not forgive her parents easily.
She would rather write to her mother herself than refuse to meet her.
What a big blow to a mother who is nearly 60 years old and longs for making up for her mother's love.
Let's son.
Svetlana's son, due to alcoholism, spirit, The health is not good, and he is prematurely aging at a young age.
The most troublesome thing is the 13-year-old daughter she brought back.
She was educated in the West since she was a child, did not speak Russian, did not understand Soviet history , believed in Christianity, and was determined not to take down the Jesus in the neck.
This made her unable to receive education in Moscow.
in life, she and her ex-husband The two children born and the youngest daughter were not integrated into each other.
Svetlana was exhausted.
It turns out that the drama of family is more difficult than politics.
After persisting for one year, Svetlana wrote a letter to Gorbachev , saying disappointedly that she did not achieve her goal of returning to China. "The family cannot be reunited, and there is no reason to stay." "
In April 1988, the Soviet Union issued another political decree, agreeing to Svetlana to give up her Soviet nationality.
She returned to the United States again and lived in seclusion in southern Wisconsin.
She was not good at managing finances, and in her later years she lived in a very difficult life.
On November 22, 2011, the 85-year-old died of colorectal cancer in Wisconsin.
Summary:
1️⃣ "The daughter is the little cotton jacket of her parents", that is ordinary ethics, and the families of politicians are often unusual;
2️⃣ The father's words are often correct . Although he sometimes is unreasonable, he has absolutely a look at his children;
3️⃣ There is no absolute freedom in this world, and ideals are always misaligned with reality. If you want to rely on Runxue to save yourself, please remember the truth that Svetlana realized in 17 years:
"The other bank of the river is the same human being.”
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Reference:
●Global Network, "The Tragic Ending of Svetlana: Father Stalin ruined my life", https://world.huanqiu.com/article/9CaKrnJGDgr
●"Children of the Kremlin", (Russia) B.C. Kraskova, translated by Xu Changhan, Northern Literature and Art Publishing House, 1998.01
●《Stalin's daughter's tortuous life》, Wang Zhengquan,《The Hundred Years of Tide》 2008-04-04
