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Video: Why the children of Stalin's daughter did not forgive her for her escape from the USSR
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the memory of the people who knew her, Svetlana Alliluyeva remained a person with a difficult character and unpredictable actions. Stalin loved his little "Mistress Setanka", but as she grew up, she disappointed her father with unexpected actions, a desire to live in her own way. The Kremlin princess easily changed husbands and lovers, preferences and affections, opinions about countries and peoples, and places of residence. Her relationship was also difficult with the children who remained in the USSR when she fled the Soviet Union.
Escape to the USA
Alliluyeva arrived in India in December 1966, accompanying the ashes of her civil husband, Brajesh Singh. She received consent to leave the country from the then chairman of the Council of Ministers, Kosygin. With the permission of the Politburo of the Communist Party, Alliluyeva could stay in the country for two months to say goodbye to her loved one and stay with his relatives.
According to the recollections of friends, the preparations for the trip were nervous and fast. For some reason, it turned out that Svetlana forgot to put a photo of her children and her mother in her suitcase. She shouted at her son's wife, who tried to bring a bag with an urn with ashes, did not say goodbye to her friends who came to see her off. The farewell to the children was also hasty and cold.
Svetlana liked India for its uniqueness, serenity, and she wanted to stay in this country. However, she was refused. Indira Gandhi feared Alliluyeva's unpredictability, which could cause complications in international relations. Then on March 6, Svetlana asked permission to stay in India for another month. She was also denied this - she already exceeded the allowed time by half a month.
In her memoirs, Alliluyeva wrote that she was not going to leave the USSR. It is not known what happened, but on March 8, leaving gifts for the children in the room, she left the hotel, got into a taxi and went to the US Embassy. Svetlana Alliluyeva made her choice - she decided to flee the USSR, leaving her children there.
Joseph Alliluyev
The first time Svetlana got married in 1944. Her husband was Grigory Morozov, an old friend of his brother Vasily. A year later, they had a boy, who was given the name Joseph, the surname Alliluyev. Stalin did not like his son-in-law, during his three years of marriage he had never seen him, but he liked his grandson. Subsequently, Joseph became a famous cardiologist who achieved considerable success in medicine.
When his mother went abroad, Joseph was 22 years old. The first two years were especially difficult. Joseph worked in the clinic in two shifts, came home, where correspondents of all kinds of print media were waiting for him. Osya was forced to communicate with them so that rumors would not go around the country that Stalin's grandson had been taken away somewhere. Gradually, Joseph's life went into its own rut, in contrast to his sister, for whom the mother's act was a strong blow.
In a letter to his mother, Joseph wrote that by her act she separated herself from her children. Now they will live according to their own understanding, receiving advice and real help from other people. In fact, on his own behalf and on behalf of his sister, he abandoned his mother. Many Soviet people were absolutely not worried about the flight of Stalin's daughter abroad, they could not forgive her abandoned children and countless scandalous novels abroad. But in 1983, they started talking about family reunification.
Svetlana and her daughter from their last marriage, Olga, began to call Osya, more or less friendly communication was established. In 1984, a mother and daughter came to the Soviet Union, intending to stay in the country forever. Joseph saw a man who lived under different circumstances, in a different country and became completely alien to him. Svetlana did not like his wife, constant employment (Osya was working on his dissertation), unwillingness to communicate with her. When his mother left for Georgia, and then forever abroad, Joseph, according to him, experienced great relief.
Ekaterina Zhdanova
The second time Svetlana got married in 1949 to Yuri Zhdanov. A year later, they had a girl named Katya. According to Joseph, the mother loved her daughter more, while the process of raising her son consisted in "constant scuffle". Mother's escape became an unexpected and bitter betrayal for Katya. After graduating from Moscow State University with a degree in geophysics, a few years later she left for Kamchatka in the village of Klyuchi. Katya was sociable, lively, sang and played the guitar. Soon she got married, leaving her last name in marriage, gave birth to a daughter, Anya. After the suicide of her husband who abused alcohol, Catherine changed, became unsociable, began to withdraw into herself, recognizing only the company of dogs.
From relatives, she communicated only with her father. Having renounced the rights to an apartment in the capital, she lived all her life in a small wooden house without a TV, furnished with old furniture. She worked at the station of the Institute of Volcanology. When Alliluyeva tried to settle down in her homeland for the second time, Katya refused to meet with her mother. She limited herself to a short note in which she wrote that she would never forgive. Alliluyeva passed letters to her daughter with American scientists assigned to the station, but she did not answer. In response to the message about Svetlana's death, Stalin's granddaughter said that it was a mistake, that she was Zhdanova, and Alliluyeva was not her mother.
A family
Svetlana Alliluyeva never revealed to anyone the reasons for leaving, which served as the basis for breaking off relations with children. She justified her act by the fact that the son and daughter were already at such an age when they could take care of themselves. She forgot that at that time such an escape was considered a betrayal of the Motherland, and the attitude towards the relatives of the defector was difficult. What they had to endure in connection with the flight of their mother, only they knew. And they had their reasons not to forgive their mother.
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