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[narrator] Moscow,
during the Cold War.
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It was '67.
It was the time of the beginning
of all these Brezhnev frost.
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On the evening
of the 6th of March,
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a Russian woman walks into
the American Embassy
in New Delhi
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and asks for political asylum.
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[Grace]
There was nobody who really
spoke Russian in the Embassy
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and she said
she wanted to defect
and she was Stalin's daughter.
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But they weren't sure
she really was
Stalin's daughter.
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I mean she could be a fake
"Stalin's daughter".
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It really is
Svetlana Alliluyeva.
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She was flown out,
escorted by an agent
from the CIA.
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For the Soviet authorities,
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it is an embarrassing setback
in the propaganda war
with the USA.
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We tried to do everything
to prevent this with London.
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One of the possibilities
was to kill her.
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The arrival of Stalin's daughter
in New York is a sensation.
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[Grace] They saw it as
a victory.
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Here she comes, her freedom and
freedom to be herself.
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Svetlana, the Kremlin Princess.
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How did the favorite child
of the Red Tzar
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become the most famous
defector of the Cold War?
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[Sergei] She didn't want to
live under this shade of an
umbrella,
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this monstrous... history.
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[drums and maracas]
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[marching]
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[piano music]
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The Empire of the Red Tzar...
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Joseph Stalin,
worshipped by many,
feared by even more.
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Responsible for the death
of millions.
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He is the father of two sons
and one daughter, Svetlana.
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[piano music continues]
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Here, the human face
of the bloody dictator
is revealed...
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as the proud father
of his beloved daughter,
Svetlana.
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[piano music continues]
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[gentle music]
[cheering]
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The people of the Soviet Union
call the bloody dictator
who rules them "Father Stalin".
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The personality cult surrounding
him knows no limits.
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Joseph Jughashvili
is born in Georgia.
The son of a shoemaker.
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As Joseph Stalin, the Steel One,
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he rises to become a member
of the Inner Circle
of Marx's Revolutionaries.
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He is not among
the most prominent of them.
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[mysterious music]
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But that will change.
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In January 1924,
the leader of
the Russian Revolution,
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin,
is carried to his grave.
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Only a short time before,
he had warned
about Stalin's ambitions.
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The potential successors
gather around the coffin.
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The struggle for Lenin's legacy
has begun.
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[drums and maracas]
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Stalin's rise to the position
of Undisputed Head
of the Kremlin
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is partly due
to Svetlana's mother.
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Stalin's second wife,
Nadezhda Alliluyeva,
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was a close confidant of Lenin's
as well as his secretary.
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Svetlana's mother, Nadezhda,
is only 16 years old when
she falls in love with Stalin...
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more than 20 years her senior.
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He is a friend of the family.
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[piano music]
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In 1921 their son,
Vasili, was born.
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Then in 1926, Svetlana.
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In one of her first interviews
in the USA, she remembers...
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[Svetlana] He was the same
person who was merciless
to his political enemies.
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He could be at the same time
rather kind and tender
with his favorite child.
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Everything was there.
Cruelty was there and...
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and sending fruits and writing
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tender letters to his daughter
was also there.
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[gentle music]
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In Moscow's Central Archives,
the blueprints
of unknown letters
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from Joseph Stalin
to Svetlana
have come to light.
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They indicate that
the relationship between father
and daughter was tender.
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[gentle music continues]
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In 1931, for example...
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in Order Number 3, Svetlana,
then five years old,
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instructs her father
to take her to the movies...
an American comedy.
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The dictator
scribbles his reply...
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"I obey my lady, Joseph Stalin."
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Behind the walls
of the Kremlin,
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the leaders of the young
Soviet Union
live in close proximity.
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Svetlana's mother, Nadezhda,
wants to be more
than Stalin's wife.
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After the birth
of their daughter,
she begins to study.
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Svetlana's mother intends to be
active in the construction
of the Socialist State.
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One of her friends at university
will one day succeed Stalin as
the head of the Communist Party.
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Nadezhda introduces
Nikita Khrushchev
to her husband.
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[Sergei] My father became
the Party Secretary
so he was supervisor
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and she came here
asking advice from him,
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what she has to do
and how to behave.
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And when he was invited
to the Stalin home,
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he found that's she's
a very different person at home.
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From 1927 on, Svetlana's father
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is the sole ruler
of the Soviet Union
with unlimited power.
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Joseph Stalin ruthlessly
pushes forward with the forced
collectivization of agriculture.
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Any resistance
is brutally suppressed.
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Millions of people
starve to death.
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[ominous music]
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On the 8th of November, 1932,
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Soviet dignitaries celebrate
the anniversary
of the Revolution.
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Svetlana's mother mingles with
the common people.
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It is the last time Nadezhda
is seen alive.
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[gunshot]
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Nadezhda's body
is laid out in the Kremlin.
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Ruptured appendix
is the official cause of death
stipulated by Stalin.
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[birds singing]
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At Nadezhda's grave,
Joseph Stalin reveals
his true nature.
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Svetlana will be told
that her mother died after
surgery to remove her appendix.
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Exactly what Stalin did
that night has never been
fully explained.
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Before her death,
Stalin lived a normal,
personal life.
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Nadezhda's death...
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really...
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changed Stalin's nature
for the worse.
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Svetlana and Vasili
are left motherless.
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They also have
a half-brother, Yakov,
from Stalin's first marriage.
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His mother died of typhoid.
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[drums and maracas]
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From now on,
Joseph Stalin will only be
wedded to power.
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Stepan Mikoyan knew Stalin's
children since their childhood
together in the Kremlin.
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Later, he makes a career
for himself
in the Soviet Air Force,
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together with Vasili.
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Life in the Kremlin
is dominated
by fear and uncertainty.
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In the mid 1930's,
Stalin's great Purge begins,
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and not even the members
of the inner circle are safe.
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Svetlana and Vasili
experience all this
at close quarters.
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Stalin spends most of his time
in his dacha outside Moscow.
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For weeks on end,
the only contact he has
with his daughter is by letter.
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The tone of the correspondence
is affectionate.
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It appears that his daughter
has forgotten about her father.
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He requests further
instructions,
inquiries about her health.
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"You are offending your father.
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I kiss you and wait
for your letter. Papa."
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The granddaughter
of the writer Maxim Gorky
and Stalin's daughter
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become the best of friends.
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[piano music]
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Marfa Peshkova is probably
the only person still alive
who witnessed Joseph Stalin
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as an affectionate father
in his private surroundings.
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For the first time
the Kremlin princess
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has a friend
who is the same age.
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[gentle music]
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Svetlana and Marfa
are in the same class at school.
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They often spend
the weekends together
in Stalin's dacha.
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Marfa dreads dinners
together with Joseph Stalin.
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It is because she has such
a close relationship
with Stalin's daughter...
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that Marfa witnesses
the way Svetlana,
as a young girl in Moscow...
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discovers the truth
about her mother's death.
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Svetlana and her father
never speak about the lie.
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Her brother, Vasili,
also suffers from this loss and,
on top of that,
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he gets little attention
from their father.
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The devoted father
of the Russian people
sacrificing himself for them.
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This is the picture
created by the propaganda
around Joseph Stalin.
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The new Moscow.
It is all to his credit.
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In school children are taught
the superiority of socialism.
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[Grace] I didn't think of Stalin
as a family man.
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I mean we knew
he was like a god almost
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and in math
we learned the difference
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how many days between
Lenin's birthday
and Stalin's birthday,
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things like that.
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The daughter
of the American diplomat,
George Kennan,
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attends a normal school
in Moscow.
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She participates
in everyday life
in the Soviet Union.
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We went to a restaurant
and they had dancing.
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And a Russian army officer
came over and asked me to dance.
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And then one of the people
from our Embassy
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went up and said,
"This is the daughter
of the American Ambassador,"
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and he turned white.
I mean I could see it myself
he was pretty terrified.
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In 1937, the terror
of Stalin's Purge reaches
a climax throughout the country.
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Millions of people
are exiled or murdered.
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Stalin's cruelty
can be turned upon anyone.
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Even those closest to him.
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[Sergei] In the peak
of these purges
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my father told that it
was a very dangerous time
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because Stalin just...
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brought him to the Kremlin
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and looked in his eyes...
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very straight and told
"You are not Khrushchev."
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And my father was really nervous
and he told Comrade Stalin,
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"You can ask all my neighbors
in my village of my name,
I am Khrushchev."
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And Stalin...
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who looks in his eyes
tried to...
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fix his reaction of this.
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Beria, the head of secret
police, was drunk.
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The dictator regards everyone
as a potential spy and traitor.
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Even comrades
who fought side by side
with Stalin.
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Polina, wife of his
closest associate Molotov,
is banished to the Gulag.
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[aircraft sound]
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From 1941 the Soviet Union
is at war with Nazi Germany.
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Not long after the war begins,
Stalin's first born son Yakov,
is captured by the Germans.
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After Stalingrad,
the Nazis offer to exchange him
for Field Marshal Paulus.
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Stalin responds,
"I'm not going to exchange
a Private for a Field Marshal."
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Svetlana's brother
commits suicide
in the concentration camp.
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Yakov flings himself
onto an electrified fence.
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[somber music]
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Night after night,
there are arrests in Moscow.
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Stalin drives Svetlana's uncle
on her mother's side
to his death.
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Her aunts and cousins
are seized by the secret police.
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Svetlana could no longer
turn a blind eye.
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[somber music continues]
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Stalin's oldest grandson,
Svetlana's nephew,
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is the Russian Theater Director
Alexander Burdonsky.
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He was born in 1941.
The son of Vasili.
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Followed two years later
by his sister, Nadezhda.
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Neither of them will ever
experience their grandfather
in a family setting.
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Vasili and Svetlana
on a journey to the Crimea.
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As they grow older,
they have less and less contact
with their father.
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Vasili makes a career
for himself in the Air Force.
He rises to the rank of General.
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This is one of the rare
public appearances
of Stalin's children.
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Svetlana seems almost uneasy
to be paid so much attention.
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Vasili's excessive
alcohol consumption has
long been an open secret.
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He owes his career
in the Air Force
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to the absolute power
of his father.
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He was an awful person
because he had no brakes.
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When I did something wrong,
my mother told,
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"You mustn't do this
or you will be
like Vasili Stalin."
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And it was and I told her
I don't want to be like
Vasili Stalin.
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[somber music]
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Svetlana wants
to study literature
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but Joseph Stalin forces her
to study history.
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Svetlana yearns
for a normal life.
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A group of friends who have
nothing to do with
the intrigues of power.
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Her first great love
is a Jewish filmmaker
20 years her senior...
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Aleksei Kapler.
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[piano music]
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Svetlana is in love.
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She goes to see her father
in their dacha.
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Stalin's reaction
shocks Svetlana.
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Joseph Stalin has
his daughter's lover arrested
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and banished to a gulag
for ten years.
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Svetlana refuses
to be intimidated.
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A year later,
she is again in love with a Jew,
Grigory Morozov.
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Svetlana's marriage collapses.
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But during that brief period,
she becomes a mother
for the first time...
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at the age of 19.
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After their divorce,
Svetlana's husband
loses his job...
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and her father-in-law
is arrested.
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Now, Joseph Stalin attempts
to find a husband for Svetlana
who meets with his approval.
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Stepan Mikoyan is one of
the candidates on the shortlist.
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Svetlana's second marriage
to the son of a Politburo
collapses just as quickly.
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She is left with a daughter.
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Now Svetlana lives
with her son, Joseph,
and her daughter, Yekaterina,
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in an apartment
Stalin has arranged.
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The children hardly know
their grandfather.
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Joseph Stalin dies on
the 5th of March 1953
from a stroke.
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Svetlana is the only member
of the family to be called
to his death bed.
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They never spoke
to one another again.
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[somber music]
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Throughout the country
the funeral is a state occasion.
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The Russian people
are in mourning
for father Stalin.
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At this time,
Stalin's oldest grandson
is attending a cadet school.
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[somber music continues]
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Crowds file past
Stalin's coffin.
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[somber music continues]
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Although the relationship
between them was difficult,
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Svetlana mourns
her father sincerely.
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Joseph Stalin is carried
to his grave.
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In 1953, the world is dominated
by the Cold War.
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But Svetlana dreams of a life
on the other side
of the Iron Curtain.
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Not long after Stalin's death,
his daughter decides to use
her mother's maiden name.
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From now on, she calls herself
Svetlana Alliluyeva.
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Nikita Khrushchev,
the old friend
of Svetlana's mother
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who will later
be her father's successor,
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breaks with the legacy
of the Bloody Dictator.
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All of us believed that Stalin
was a god
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and he was really
the person who
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tried to do the best
to the people.
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[ominous music]
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After Stalin dies,
Vasili is demoted
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and later sentenced
to eight years in prison.
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In 1961 he dies, aged just 41,
from the consequences
of his alcoholism.
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He is buried in a grave
alongside his mother.
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In the late '50s and early '60s,
Svetlana leads a reclusive life
in Moscow with her children.
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She secretly writes her memoirs.
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The Soviet Union has become
a prison for Stalin's daughter.
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During a stay
in hospital in 1963,
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Svetlana meets an Indian man,
Brajesh Singh,
and falls in love with him.
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Brajesh Singh is seriously ill
with a lung condition.
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Svetlana requests an audience
with the Russian Premier,
Alexei Kosygin.
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The mission is not granted.
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On the 31st of October 1966,
Singh dies in Svetlana's arms.
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Svetlana wants to take his ashes
to India in person.
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Since 1964, Leonid Brezhnev
has been ruling
the Soviet Union.
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By implying her contacts
and her cunning,
Svetlana persuades Brezhnev.
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In January 1967,
he allows her
to make the journey.
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By now Svetlana is 40 years old.
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For the first time,
she is allowed to leave
the Soviet Union.
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[piano music]
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Stalin's daughter
travels to India.
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Her children,
almost grown up by now,
remain behind.
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It is the peak of the Cold War.
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In 1967, the Americans
are fighting in Vietnam
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to halt the spread
of Communist regimes.
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And the Soviet Union
is busy rattling savers.
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In India, Svetlana blossoms.
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She would very much like
to remain with the Singh family,
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but the Indian government
won't allow this.
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After almost two months,
the KGB tries
to force her to return.
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But Stalin's daughter decides
to make her escape.
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She said she wanted to defect
and she was Stalin's daughter
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but they weren't sure
she really was
Stalin's daughter.
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That's when the State Department
decided that they had to have
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somebody who could
authenticate her.
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And they picked my father.
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That very same night,
accompanied by a CIA agent,
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Svetlana is flown
out of the country.
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She is to meet with
George Kennan
in neutral Switzerland.
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[Grace] He was quite impressed.
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First of all, it was definitely
Stalin's daughter.
That was not even a question.
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The soviet leadership
is informed
in a secret telegram.
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At this point,
Svetlana's children
also discover that she has fled.
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At the time,
Joseph is 21 years old
and Yekaterina is 17.
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She will never forgive
her mother for abandoning her.
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[anticipatory music]
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The Kremlin sets it's
propaganda machine in motion.
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It is claimed that
Stalin's daughter went insane
and was kidnapped by the CIA.
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Worse things are planned.
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One of these possibilities
was to kill her.
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I don't know?
Did they receive
the order to kill her
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because they could not kill her
without Brezhnev's approval.
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On the 12th of April 1967,
Svetlana lands in New York.
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[Grace] I was there
at the airport.
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My sister, Joan, and I were up
in a... we were up high
and looking down
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and we could see
snipers on the roof.
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We'd never seen
snipers on the roof.
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Um, you know,
there was tremendous excitement
when she defected.
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[reporter] A woman once known as
"the little princess
of the Kremlin"
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arrives in America
from Switzerland.
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Svetlana, the 42 year old
daughter of Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin,
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sought asylum here,
where one can feel...
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[narrator]
Even before her arrival,
Svetlana had sold her memoirs
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for a record sum
of three million dollars.
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[reporter] ...dogma has lost
its significance.
It's impossible...
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[narrator] The daughter of the
Red Tzar has become a propaganda
tool for western capitalism.
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If you defected, it was clear
that you will become...
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manipulated by CIA
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and it became part of
the big political game.
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At first,
Svetlana is hidden on a farm
belonging to George Kennan.
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His daughter, Grace,
looks after her there.
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[Grace] He made me feel
like we had Trotsky there.
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You know, that she could be
any time kidnapped
or assassinated.
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The State Department
offered her security
and she turned it down.
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She, I remember her
telling me about it
and she was twirling around.
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She was very
physically exuberant.
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She was kind of twirling
and saying "I'm free! I'm free!"
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And I was thinking
"Yeah, you're free
and I'm worried."
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Because I was worried.
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Svetlana receives
the international press
in a luxury New York hotel
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and talks about her future
in the USA.
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Well uh...
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I think that the,
before the marriage
it should be love.
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So, if I will love this country
and this country will love me,
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then the marriage
will be settled
but I cannot say now.
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The public is surprised
by her good English.
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The sale of rights to her book
make Svetlana rich.
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Stalin's daughter is treated
as a media star
proclaiming the joys of freedom.
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I am dreaming about
the time when...
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two countries,
two great countries,
Russia and the United States,
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could become really friendly
and people could have
free contacts
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and travel here and there.
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Now Svetlana
is invited everywhere.
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One of these invitations
takes her to Taliesin.
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This artist's colony,
set in the hilly
Wisconsin countryside,
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reminds her of Georgia,
her father's homeland.
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It is here that she will find
new love.
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Only a few weeks
after her arrival,
she marries Wesley Peters,
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the closest assistant
of the brilliant architect,
Frank Lloyd Wright.
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[piano music]
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Svetlana is already 44 years old
when their daughter,
Olga, is born.
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It looks as though
her happiness is perfect.
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But the reporters
who come to talk to her
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only ever want to talk
about one thing...
Joseph Stalin.
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[reporter] It's ironic,
but the granddaughter
of Joseph Stalin is born
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a capitalistic
of the United States.
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No I don't know.
First of all,
I don't see any irony
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about myself
living in this country.
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I feel very much at home here.
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[narrator] Her happiness with
her new husband is,
once again, short lived.
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Svetlana feels restricted
by the strict regulations
in the artist's commune.
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Though this is the framework
of Wesley Peters' life...
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she buys a nearby ranch
for her husband's son.
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But not even this step
can rescue her marriage.
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[Grace] She almost always
made poor decisions.
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She was just...
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I mean, lots of people told her
not to give her money away,
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not to invest in,
as we were told,
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it was in the ranch
of her husband's son.
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She always did exactly
what she wanted to do.
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And that was a little bit,
maybe the princess element,
I'm referring to.
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Svetlana moves to Princeton.
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She lived there
before this marriage.
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But her dream
of teaching literature
at the University
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comes to nothing.
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She still has money there.
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A second book about
her first year in the USA
is also a financial success.
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Back in Moscow,
Svetlana has arranged
to be baptized.
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Now in Princeton,
she finds friends
among the Anglican community.
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She hardly ever
appears in public these days.
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She feels as though
she's being watched,
followed everywhere.
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[Rosa] She was very much afraid
of other people.
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In fact,
she would come to our house
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00:45:55,720 --> 00:45:56,920
but she would ask us please
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to not have other people.
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She turned down...
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parties to the President
of the United States twice.
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00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,600
She thought she was being
manipulated by the CIA often.
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00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:17,520
Stalin's daughter finds it
impossible to be at peace.
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00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,760
Svetlana moves around
the world restlessly.
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00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,600
Since her escape
from the Soviet Union,
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she has had no contact
with her children.
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00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:28,120
I was prepared...
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00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:33,960
not to see them for a long time
but I was not prepared
to the idea that
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they will not be permitted
to even to write to me.
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00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,440
Their well-being depends
on the fact that they are
cut off from me.
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Homeless and lonely,
Svetlana attempts to find a home
for herself with her daughter.
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When she goes to see
a Russian film in the cinema
with one of her friends,
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Svetlana breaks down.
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00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,760
We went together
to see "Oblomov" ...
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00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:02,440
and...
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a half hour after everybody else
had left the theater...
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she was still
sobbing uncontrollably.
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She said this was her childhood,
this was the earth
she remembered.
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It brought everything in.
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The mother,
the love of a mother.
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Because it just took her back
to really mother Russia.
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00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:36,120
New headlines in 1984,
"Svetlana returns to Moscow with
her American daughter, Olga".
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Did her son ask her
to come back
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on the urging of the KGB
and the leaders of the country?
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This is what
Svetlana believes later.
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00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:50,560
She soon feels she is being used
by the government
for Soviet propaganda.
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00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,440
Even the Soviet leadership
gradually leaves her alone.
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00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,520
After only a year,
she is permitted to travel
back to the west
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without any difficulty.
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00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,760
Feeling restless,
always running,
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00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,760
she lives in England
for some time
and then returns to the USA.
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00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,200
Svetlana changes homes
more than 40 times.
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Each time the residences
are smaller
and there is less money.
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00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,400
Martha Schad meets her at
the final stage
of her life's voyage.
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The home in Wisconsin
accepts the needy.
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00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,560
Once again,
the highs and lows
of Svetlana's life
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are to be depicted.
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00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:47,920
But how is it possible
to write about Svetlana
without talking about Stalin?
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00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,160
[Martha] The land
of her father...
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00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:53,480
[shouts in frustration]
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00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,280
-[Martha] Alrighty.
-Just stop...
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00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,880
[Martha] I stop it,
I stop it right away. I'm sorry.
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00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,560
-I don't want to be...
-[Martha] OK I stop it.
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00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,240
-I don't want quotations
from you.
-[Martha] Alrighty.
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00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,240
-Russian papers.
-[Martha] Alrighty.
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00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:06,800
[Martha] OK.
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00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:21,560
My father.
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00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:31,800
Svetlana Alliluyeva,
the princess from the Kremlin,
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00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,880
dies in utter poverty
in November 2011.
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00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:43,000
She talked about when she was
living in the poor houses
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with other people,
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sharing bathrooms and kitchens.
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00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,920
She was happy about that,
she said this was right.
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00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:54,480
"I started at the top,
I should end at the bottom.
That's the great balance."
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00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,120
Stalin did love his daughter,
Svetlana.
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00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:04,320
But there was no escape for her
from the shadow of his life.
457
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,000
[somber music]
458
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:47,080
[somber music continues]
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