“People say, 'Stalin's daughter,' 'Stalin's daughter,' meaning I'm supposed to walk around with a rifle and shoot the Americans. Or they say, 'No, she's come here. She is an American citizen.' That means I'm with a bomb against the others. No, I'm neither one. I'm somewhere in between. That 'somewhere in between' they can't understand.”

About Svetlana Alliluyeva

Author • Soviet-born American

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. In 1967, she caused an international sensation when she defected to the United States and became a naturalized...