Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
9th March 2012, 09:14
The daughter of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has requested political asylum at the United States Embassy in India.
The American Mutual Radio network broke the news but the American State Department has so far refused to comment.
Since her father's death in 1953, little has been heard of 42-year-old Svetlana Alliluyeva - who prefers to be known by her mother's maiden name. She has been living in a flat in Moscow near the British Embassy working as a researcher and translator.
(She went to the United States in April 1967.
On arrival at New York, she held a press conference and astonished the world by denouncing her father's regime - much to the irritation of the Soviet leader of the time, Alexei Kosygin, who said she was a "sick person")
Source: BBC News - History
The American Mutual Radio network broke the news but the American State Department has so far refused to comment.
Since her father's death in 1953, little has been heard of 42-year-old Svetlana Alliluyeva - who prefers to be known by her mother's maiden name. She has been living in a flat in Moscow near the British Embassy working as a researcher and translator.
(She went to the United States in April 1967.
On arrival at New York, she held a press conference and astonished the world by denouncing her father's regime - much to the irritation of the Soviet leader of the time, Alexei Kosygin, who said she was a "sick person")
Source: BBC News - History