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Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
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Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
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Svetlana Alliluyeva
Youngest child of Joseph Stalin (1926–2011)
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she became an international sensation when she defected to the United States and, in 1978, became…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Defection
Giving up of allegiance to one state for allegiance to another
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