The death of Stalin’s only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, known as Lana Peters, made news around the world in November 2011. Svetlana was in the public eye ever since the spring of 1967, because of her decision to defect to the US. This caused a stir inside the Soviet leadership in the same year that the USSR was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Although the international media published weeks on end articles on the subject of Svetlana’s defection, the Soviet press declined to take a stand on the matter. However, a document from the archives of the ex-Romanian Communist Party shows very clearly the Kremlin’s take on Svetlana’s fleeing. Born in 1926, Svetlana was Stalin’s third child and only daughter from his second marriage with Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Svetlana’s childhood and teenage years were inevitably tragic, because her mother died when she was only 4 years of age. It is generally acknowledged that Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide, because she could not live with her abusive husband. Although Stalin spoiled his daughter, little Svetlana did not enjoy a very close relationship with him, since most of the time she was raised by the Kremlin’s personnel rather than her father. However, Stalin made his presence felt during Svetlana’s teenage years by interfering in her romantic relationships. He decided to send Svetlana’s first partner, a much older Soviet director, as further as he could from his daughter – to Siberia. Her next romantic interest, Grigory Morozov, was not to his liking as well. Even though they got married and had a son, Stalin refused to meet Morozov. In the end, Svetlana divorced him and remarried Yuri Zhdanov, a man Stalin approved of because his father was one of his closest associates. They had together a daughter, but their marriage soon disintegrated. Between the burden of her name and the drama