Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, passed away…

Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, passed away in the United States at the age of 85. She was said to have died of colon cancer in Richland, Wisconsin, on November 22, but the death was announced only on Monday…

The only daughter of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, she was born on February 28, 1926 under the name of Svetlana Stalina. But after her father died in 1953, she took her mother’s last name Alliluyeva and in the 1970s she moved to the United States of America. Then she married an American and since then she lived under the name of Lana Peters…

Hmmm…

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