![]() ![]() and to England with their daughter Olga in tow. The marriage didn’t last even two years she spent the next decade moving back and forth across the U.S. It took fewer than two decades for Alliluyeva to run through the $1.5 million garnered by her memoir, “Twenty Letters to a Friend,” most of it absorbed by the debts of the man she impulsively wed only three weeks after they met in 1970. She had rejected the confining privileges of being Joseph Stalin’s daughter when she defected from the Soviet Union in 1967, writing to the son and daughter she left behind that “t is impossible to be always a slave.” But she also proved ill-equipped for dealing with “this modern jungle of freedom” in the West. ![]() “Why is it that I cannot find my own right way?” Svetlana Alliluyeva asked herself in 1986. ![]()
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