What happened to Stalin's only daughter, who defected to the United States after his death?
She was the only daughter of Stalin, who treated her as a little princess and loved her very much, but he defected to the United States after Stalin's death.
At that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were still in the Cold War, and as soon as this matter broke out, it attracted the attention of the whole world. We all know that the United States and the Soviet Union have always been sworn enemies, and Stalin is also very disgusted with the United States, so why did his only daughter choose to defect? How is life in the United States? Let's take a look at the defection of the Red Princess.
Svetlana
The Red Princess, named Svetlana, was born to Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda. Stalin had three children, and Svetlana was not only his youngest child, but also his only daughter.
She was born in 1926, when Stalin was 48 years old, and the old woman made him love this daughter very much, and even on many important occasions, Stalin would take her to attend, which made Svetlana live in the spotlight from an early age, and was called the "Red Princess" by the Soviet people.
Stalin was a very serious person, but Svetlana was the only one who dared to call him, not only at home, but even when she went to school later, she was loved by everyone.
However, although Stalin loved her very much, he was also very strict with her, from life choices to food, clothing, shelter and transportation. For example, she was not allowed to wear skirts and sleeveless clothes, or forced her to change her studies to history if she liked literature.
The father-daughter conflict is becoming increasingly intense
Extreme pampering and strict control made Svetlana more and more rebellious, and Stalin wanted her to study more intellectual books, but she thought they were too boring.
By the time she was 6 years old, during a meal, her mother and father had a few words of conversation, after which she shot herself, and Stalin said to the outside world that she had died of appendicitis.
Svetlana was too young to know the truth, and the loss of her mother at a young age made her somewhat closed. However, fortunately, there are many classmates and friends in the school to accompany her, and her childhood is not lonely. But that soon changed.
Stalin began a nationwide purge in which the fathers of many of Svetlana's classmates were involved and even lost their lives. Anxious, these classmates asked her for help, hoping that she would intercede with Stalin.
Svetlana couldn't bear to see her friends sad, so she begged her father to spare them. At first, Stalin looked at his daughter's face, but he spared many people.
But this led to more and more people coming to Svetlana, and she interceded more and more often, and Stalin naturally could not fully listen to his daughter's opinion, so the two sides continued to quarrel, and the contradictions became deeper and deeper.
The relationship is interfered with by the father
And what really hit Svetlana was her relationship. When she was 16 years old, the Great Patriotic War broke out, and Stalin sent her to Catherineburg to ensure her safety.
Later, at a banquet, she met a Jewish writer named Alexey Kapler, who was not only a writer but also a screenwriter, talented, mild-mannered, and soon attracted Svetlana.
However, he was in his forties at this time, and he still had a wife, but Svetlana, who had just opened her heart, could not control that, so soon after, the two were together.
This matter was soon known to Stalin, who was so angry that he immediately sent an investigation into Alexey Kapler. An investigation found that the man was not only married in his forties, but also a playboy.
In his opinion, the daughter must have been deceived by his rhetoric, so she sent the man directly to the concentration camp, and Svetlana, although very angry, did not dare to resist.
Although Stalin was a woman of love, he used the wrong method, which made the relationship between the two more rigid, and Svetlana more rebellious.
In 1944, she met a classmate of hers, as if deliberately, who was also Jewish, and the two soon fell in love. Afraid of repeating the mistakes of the past, she did not tell her father about it.
After that, the two secretly married Behind Stalin's back, and Stalin knew that it was too late to stop it, and he had no choice but to accept this fact. However, the marriage was very short-lived, and it did not take long for the two to divorce.
Later, by arrangement with her father, she married Yuri Andreevich, the son of her father's assistant Andrei Zhdanov.
However, because the two did not have any emotional basis, they divorced after giving birth to a daughter. At this time Stalin had reached the end of his life. He was most relieved about this daughter, so before he died, he repeatedly told his son to take care of his sister.
Although there are many contradictions with her father, her father's death still makes her very sad. Under Stalin's care, Svetlana's life was still good, and she was not only treated with great respect, but also provided her with a villa and a car.
Sources of hatred
But an incident happened that made her remember and hate her father again. It turned out that after Khrushchev took office, he began to deny Stalin completely.
In order to reduce Stalin's influence in the country, he constantly investigated the past and sent people to smear Stalin, including the secret of the death of his second wife.
Khrushchev said that Stalin was a violent man, that he was very bad for his wife, and often beat her after getting drunk, so Nadezhda was depressed and could not stand Stalin before committing suicide.
Later, stalin exiled and executed many relatives related to his wife in order to hide his eyes and ears. Svetlana, who learned the truth, was very distressed, and in order to commemorate her mother, she changed her surname to her mother's surname.
Leave the USSR
Just ten years after Stalin's death, Svetlana fell ill, and during her hospitalization she met another patient. This man was called Brayesh Singh, and he was a nobleman from India.
During the hospitalization, the two had a lot of topics to talk about every day, and the relationship was getting better and better, and it wasn't long before they were together. After they were together, they wanted to get married, but due to Svetlana's special status, marriage required a special application and could only be registered with consent.
At that time, there were many former Stalin's subordinates in the Soviet Union, who were entrusted by Stalin and were also concerned about this matter, because Brayesh Singh was an Indian and was seriously ill, so he did not agree to her request.
Svetlana had long had enough of her father's interference, and now that her father was gone, he even had his men to interfere. This made her very angry, and she was even more determined to marry Brayeszinger.
In order to be able to get married, she announced that she would leave the organization and return home to take care of Singer exclusively. But because Singh was so ill, he died within a few months.
Svetlana was very sad, and in order to return Singh's ashes to their country, she applied to the Soviet side to go to India. Those high-ranking people thought that people had died anyway, so they did not stop her and gave her a two-week vacation.
She then went to India with Singh's ashes, and when she came here, she felt the long-lost breath of freedom, so she had the idea of settling here. But she knew that the country would certainly not agree.
She suddenly thought that she could get out of control by applying for political asylum, so she immediately found an Indian official. But what was not expected was that the Indian side was friendly with the Soviet side at that time, which could be said to be their little brother, of course, did not dare to risk offending them to provide shelter for Svetlana, so he refused her request.
After the plan failed, she was very anxious, seeing that the prescribed time to return to China was coming, and if she could not escape smoothly this time, I was afraid that she would never have another chance. The Indian side does not dare to provide asylum, and other countries are afraid to do the same. Now the only thing that can compete with them is Lao Mei.
She was a little hesitant to think of it, but for the sake of freedom, she still chose to defect to the United States. Soon she came to the U.S. Embassy in India, asked them for asylum, and expressed her willingness to become a U.S. citizen.
After learning that she was Stalin's daughter, the American side was naturally extremely welcoming, and they immediately arranged a plane to take her to New York. After arriving in New York, a press conference was arranged to interview her.
At the press conference, Svetlana did not hide her hatred for her father and the motherland, which made the United States very excited, and also made the Soviet side in an uproar, accusing him of betraying his father and betraying his country.
Final outcome
During her life in the United States, Svetlana published many books, many of which contained a lot of anti-Soviet rhetoric. The US side has also made a big fuss about this. The Soviet side was very angry about this and announced that she had been stripped of her status as a Soviet citizen.
After that, Svetlana married again and gave birth to a daughter with her husband, but soon after, her husband was in debt, and in desperation, she had to use her savings to pay off the debt, but her husband still had no restraint. In the end, she was finally completely disappointed and chose to divorce.
And her life after that was not satisfactory, the US side just looked at her identity and wanted to use her, and she did not get real freedom here.
So then she went to England again, and after living for a while, she missed her motherland again, so she wrote to the Soviet embassy and said that she wanted to return to China.
In 1984, Swatlana finally returned to Moscow again. She expressed her remorse to the people, and at the same time reprimanded the US side again. She remembered her son and daughter, whom she had left behind, and wanted to see them, but they had already been heartbroken and were unwilling to forgive her.
Not long after staying in China, she found that the people around her no longer treated her in the same way as before, and her daughter did not adapt to life here, so she once again chose to leave and return to the United States.
She lived in Wisconsin until her death in 2011.