Svetlana Stalin dies in US aged 85

CHICAGO – The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Svetlana Peters, who denounced communism but later said she regretted…

CHICAGO – The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Svetlana Peters, who denounced communism but later said she regretted coming to the US, has died in Wisconsin, authorities said. She died on November 22nd, aged 85, from colon cancer.

Svetlana Stalin settled in central Wisconsin after marrying architect William Peters, an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright, in the early 1970s.

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