I've never had the life of an ordinary person, and people know who I am and what kind of person I am. This is my destiny, and I must endure it. --Svetlana
This sentence is full of helplessness and resentment from the daughter of the former Soviet leader Stalin, Svetlana, who has lived a life of fine clothes and food since she was a child, enjoying princess-like treatment. And she actually chose to give up the carefree aristocratic life that countless people envied, fled her father, betrayed the motherland, and preferred to be alone in the United States.
Svetlana was born in 1926, when Stalin was 47 years old and so happy that she didn't know what her last name was. Therefore, no matter where you go, you will take your daughter with you, and if you have anything good, you must give it to your daughter first, not only that, Svetlana was also revered by the Soviets as the "Red Princess".
As Stalin's only daughter, she has been pampered since she was a child, and unlike her two older brothers, she was pampered by her father as a pearl in the palm of her hand. Svetlana was Stalin's youngest child, and Stalin gave his precious daughter a name with a beautiful meaning and a different meaning after repeated consultation.
Like other fathers, Stalin was a proper daughter slave. No matter how crazy and noisy his daughter is, he will laugh at it, while the discipline of his two sons is much stricter.
She grew up with love and care, but happy times were always short-lived. In 1932, Svetlana's mother committed suicide, which brought great psychological shadow and trauma to the age of 6.
Stalin had a strong desire for control, and his mother chose to commit suicide because she could not stand her control. In order not to hurt his daughter's young soul, Stalin lied that his mother had died of illness.
After the death of his wife, Stalin's desire for control was transferred to his daughter, who strictly controlled all aspects of her life and even her studies. His love was like a mountain, and his daughter, who had once weighed down, was breathless.
The title of Stalin's daughter was both an honor and a shackle to her, and she was often compared, just because she was the child of the leader, she had to come out on top in everything, or she would be humiliated by her father, which invisibly put a lot of pressure on her.
Stalin was a frightening iron-fisted leader in the history of the Soviet Union, and he had always been decisive in his actions and vigorous in his actions, which was not only reflected in his political career, but also in his life. For example, at the age of ten, she was forced by her father to read a long and boring tutorial on Soviet history, and she refused to watch it, but in exchange for Stalin's anger.
He not only interfered in the trivial matters of his daughter's dress, but also intervened in his daughter's love affair, and after learning that her daughter was actually in love with an old man, he was furious and slapped her in anger, which was also the first time he beat her. Just because he was dissatisfied with his daughter's first love, he was imprisoned for decades without permission, and a person's life was ruined in this way, and he also ruined his daughter's happiness.
There are no impermeable walls, and as Svetlana grows older and more sensible, she also knows the true cause of her mother's death. This made her even more dissatisfied with her father, and the relationship between the two fell to a freezing point.
The conflict between father and daughter intensified, but in the face of her strong father, all the resistance made by Svetlana was in vain. Just as she loved literature when she was in college, she was forced by her father to change her studies to history, which stimulated her rebellious emotions.
Svetlanna, who went to college, developed a relationship again, with the lessons of the last first love, this time he and she quickly cut the mess, did not give her father the opportunity to react, quickly married and had children with each other, but unfortunately this hasty love eventually ended in failure.
The elderly Stalin's desire for control continued to grow, and he even took it upon himself to arrange a political marriage for his daughter, but in the end, this marriage without emotional basis ended unexpectedly in tragedy.
It was Svetlanna, who grew up in this tense and repressive original family atmosphere, that she developed a rebellious and withdrawn personality from an early age. And what her father did deeply sowed the seeds of rebellion in her heart.
In 1953, Stalin died, and the conflict between father and daughter was not resolved until the moment of Stalin's death. Sadly, Svetlana felt a sense of relief she had never felt before. Finally no longer subject to this strict control, Svetlana's evaluation of her father was only four short words: "He ruined me."
Stalin's love for her was beyond doubt, but in the wrong way. In fact, Svetlana's feelings for her father are also very complicated and contradictory, she hates him, but she still recognizes Stalin as his father, after all, the blood relationship is continuous.
In 1954, Svetlana felt that her father's surname would still hurt her ears, eyes and heart deeply, so she changed her mother's surname.
In 1963, at the age of 37, Svetlana fell in love again, this time again against Singh, a Member of the Communist Party in India. But it was almost impossible for her to travel to India to live with Singh, because she was the daughter of Soviet leaders. Due to the strong obstruction of the Soviet authorities, the two did not receive a marriage license until Singh's death.
Svevetlana's emotional path can be described by repeated defeats, and she once again blamed the Soviet authorities for the loss of her lover. He had no nostalgia for the Soviet Union and began to plan to escape from this huge cage.
Her request to travel to India under the pretext of returning Singh's ashes was justified and could not be rejected by the Soviet authorities. No one knew that Svetlana had set out this time with the determination that the hero would never return.
At that time, the personnel of the United States Government also reconfirmed to her: I am afraid that you will never have the opportunity to return to your homeland after you leave, will you really not regret it? Svetlana did not say a word, and resolutely boarded the plane to the United States.
In fact, the Americans were also muttering in their hearts at that time, after all, Svetlana's identity was special, and they were not sure whether she really wanted to immigrate or had other plans, so they had to send her to the relative safety of Switzerland first.
After a thorough investigation, the U.S. government determined that Svetlana had no ill intentions before agreeing to her entry into the United States.
By coincidence, Svet anna came to the United States at a time when the Cold War was intensifying, and the arrival of the daughter of the former Soviet leader was a surprise for the United States. As Stalin's daughter Svetlana, this move was no different from treason, and for a time the Soviet people condemned and angrily scolded her, calling her a traitor. At this time, Svetlana, who was on the edge of the cliff, had no choice but to become a U.S. citizen to save her life.
New environment and new life, Svetlana in the United States began her last marriage, this time she married a construction businessman, but unfortunately her husband soon suffered bankruptcy, and the marriage seemed to come to an end. Her marriage, like a curse, always ended in tragedy, and this last paragraph was no exception, ending in divorce.
Svevetlana, who had just arrived in the United States, thought she had finally gained the freedom of her own, she was so naïve that she had just turned from one cage to another.
In the United States, she did not get the ordinary life she wanted, she lived in the pen and spotlight of the media every day, and was once in the whirlpool of public opinion.
Svetlana, who was in a foreign country, had to support herself on her own, so she decided to earn money by publishing books, and she wrote a book about her experiences, which sold well. But the real selling point of the book is not her personal experience, but that there is a lot of content about the Soviet Union. Returning briefly to the Soviet Union in her later years, she also received a government-allocated high-end house for her father's sake.
Later Svetlana continued to make a living by writing books, and at that time, the book fees earned by writing her memoirs alone were already several million dollars, and Svetlana became a small rich woman. However, it is clear that this pampered princess does not know how to manage money and does not properly manage her own funds, which has caused the poverty of her later life.
It has to be said that man himself is really a complex contradiction, such as Svetlana, who dislikes her father while using her father's label to help her survive.
In fact, Svetlana never wanted to betray her father and betray the country, she just wanted to get rid of her father's control. But all this is beyond her control, and she can only obediently obey the arrangements of the US government under the fence.
Since coming to the United States, Svetlana has been closely monitored by the US authorities, and not only that, the US authorities have forced her to write various articles maliciously defaming the Soviet Union. At first, out of hatred for the Soviet government and her father, she betrayed a lot of secret information in one fell swoop. But she was just a gun in the hands of the U.S. government, and what could be more interesting for the U.S. government than to use the Soviets against the Soviets?
And Svetlana also gradually understood that she was just a pawn in the game between the two countries. The freedom he had always fantasized about could not have in the Soviet Union, and coming to the United States was equally delusional, as if freedom was not born to belong to Svetlana.
And Svetlana in the United States is not all bad memories, she once participated in a very interesting social event, the inviter turned out to be the daughter of her father's enemy - Nina, but the two talked very speculatively, and got along very well. I don't know whether it is because both of them are broad-minded and do not care about the previous suspicions, or because they are influenced by the relatively open environment of the United States. The same frame between the two of them has also been ridiculed by reporters with "talking and laughing".
No matter how much we used to hate our hometown, it's likely to be a place we'll never go back to when we grow up. Svetlana is like this, she has no use in the United States, the Americans no longer provide for her like a bodhisattva, and her situation in the United States is becoming increasingly desolate. At this time, her heart was like an arrow, just like he was when she tried to break free of the soviet cage and come to the United States.
She took her daughter to England first, and then successfully returned to the Soviet Union, and in the face of reporters' questions, she also firmly stated that she would spend the rest of her life in the Soviet Union. But the children who had been abandoned by her were unwilling to forgive her, and when they were turned away by her own children, she felt the pain of losing her relatives, and she more or less understood her father. Disheartened, she returned to the United States alone again. She never returned to the Soviet Union for the rest of her life, and Svetlana lived a low-key life of seclusion in the United States, reluctantly agreeing to participate in a documentary about herself in 2007 at the urging of foreign media, but after that, she disappeared again, the last time she appeared in public view, and almost no one saw her for many years.
In the documentary, she tells the audience about the hardships and setbacks she has suffered in her life. She also said that her life was too heavy, so heavy that she didn't even bother to live any longer. Death is not terrible, what is terrible is the loss of hope of living, it is difficult to imagine how much hardship Svetlana has suffered to become what she is now, and her experience is really regrettable.
In 2008, the famous German writer Martasard published a book called "Stalin's Daughter", in which he described Svetlana as a woman who tried to find herself but could not find herself, a daughter who spent her life trying to get rid of her father's shadow.
In 2010, Svetlana, who was 85 years old, died in the United States. She walked quietly, without taking away a single cloud.
Maybe everyone will think that Svetlana is doing this, putting a good princess inappropriate, having to run to be some traitor, and finally ending up with a tragic end of a guest's death, which is entirely her own fault.
But you're not her, you don't know what she wants, she just wants to live the life of an ordinary person, a family happy together. But such a simple appeal is a luxury for her. Becoming Stalin's daughter was her innate destiny, and she had no choice, although "if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight", but she never wanted to wear this crown, but she still had to bear its weight.
Isn't there a saying that "there is a kind of cold call your mother feels that you are cold" In fact, all of our parents' concern for us is out of love, but care should also be moderate, excessive care for children is an invisible bondage, I hope that all parents can take it as a warning, so as not to cause irreparable tragedy.