Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Alliluyeva

On March 6, 1967, Stalin's 41-year-old daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defected at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, India, where she publicly denounced Communism and “embraced God, America, and apple pie.”

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