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Stalin's Daughter

The daughter of the Soviet dictator, Svetlana defected to the West in 1967.

Brought up in the most privileged circumstances in the Soviet Union - she came to hate the system her father had created.

Photo of Stalin with Svetlana as a child. Credit: AFP/Getty Images.

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