Josef Stalin
Stalin's daughter Lana Peters dies at 85
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's daughter, whose defection to the West during the Cold War embarrassed the ruling communists and made her a best-selling author, has died. She was 85. Lana Peters — who was known internationally by her previous name,
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's daughter, whose defection to the West during the Cold War embarrassed the ruling communists and made her a best-selling autho.
Daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies in Wisconsin at age 85. Laski Diffusion / Getty Images Contributor. Lana Peters (then named Svetlana Alliluyeva) in Moscow in 1933 with her father, Russian Communist Party
When she defected in 1967, Peters promptly denounced her father and the regime he ran that killed millions of people.
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's daughter, whose defection to the West during the Cold War embarrassed the ruling communists and made her a best-selling author, has died. She was 85. Lana Peters — who was known
