I am just thinking that many of us do not know to appreciate that we were born to average parents, having averages lives, at times struggling, at times in happiness, but we own our lives.

@ellebelle8515

Жыл бұрын

Well said.

@barbaradownie3265

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY

@AnhNguyen-hn9vj

Жыл бұрын

ya. living normal is sometimes the best you can get. People are just getting out of control when they involved with power and survival instinct. it is just completely brutal. wouldn't surprised they got insane sooner or later.

@ammihernandez71

Жыл бұрын

Yes, beautifully said.

@Floridantea

Жыл бұрын

Average is dull, nothing to be proud of.

These kind of documented videos should be taught in American History Classes, and all free Nation's Classroom. 🙏🇺🇸🙏🌏✌️

I find these videos very interesting. I think it's important that we know history, especially when we have people like Svetlana to give us first-hand experiences.

@bitterballs356

Жыл бұрын

A traitor, unlike her father who was a great man

@bernicemellstrom5693

Жыл бұрын

@@bitterballs356 A great sociopathic murderer!

@siyuricastel5256

Жыл бұрын

@@bitterballs356 hahha.

@Paulius-lb4ng

11 ай бұрын

Сталин был жалким и трусливым психопатом, очень похожим на сегодняшнего Путина, слава Украине 🇺🇦

@justacat2

28 күн бұрын

@@bitterballs356svetlana never betrayed her father

How tragic!!! I didn’t know she had children. She was someone who needed intensive therapy. I know she wasn’t willing to do something like that; and besides, she was virtually kryptonite. She could not get away from her father’s horrendous legacy.

@MaciusSzwed

5 ай бұрын

Nonsens! No one needs therapy! Everyone needs LOVE!!

A small simple comment from one who has studied the Russian Revolution most of my adult days: When she is resting in bed after giving birth, she really looks like her father. Her life was what she made it and I do suppose she did find some happiness and gain. Money is great as it answers all things, but for her it was not going to bring her what her soul possibly longed for. Thank you for a great video.

@shielamarie4291

Жыл бұрын

Great historical video . . . .

@RK-su4hs

Жыл бұрын

She was a colorful courageous yet restless soul She didn’t appreciate her financial success. Whatever we don’t appreciate Life takes away from us Regardless it wasn’t an easy life for her I hope she is at peace now

@jrmckim

Жыл бұрын

@R K I believe there's many people born into money that never appreciated it. They still have money.

@RK-su4hs

Жыл бұрын

@@jrmckim life is ongoing. What you see is only a moment in time of another persons life. Laws of Life are absolute & favor no man or woman no matter their position

@gerryhouska2859

Жыл бұрын

Yes, his image but for a moustache and a pipe.

Brilliant documentary ! Didn’t have the clue that she lived until 2010’s Whata life sorry for her children though

Fascinating. Thank You

I can't imagine how Olga feels when she goes somewhere & maybe sees an old magazine cover with her grandfather on it. I wonder if she's ever even wanted to go to Russia to meet her half sister.

@hoodyniszwangsjacke3190

Жыл бұрын

Most supposedly she just feels somehow odd about the fact, that her grandfather was Stalin, since she never got to know him. And as she grew up in the US maybe she would've wanted to get to know Russia just out of family interest, but nonetheless it would be a foreign country to her.

@julie.1081

Жыл бұрын

@@hoodyniszwangsjacke3190 So true! I just can't imagine how I'd feel in her place. It must feel very odd.

@Neretva73

Жыл бұрын

He is not from Russia, but from Georgia. And he is not Russian. But how will you even know that?

What a story! What a story!

Excellent balanced documentary!!! Thanks for allowing us to learn about person!

Excellent documentary.

Utterly tragic. She couldn't reconcile her family & past, and who can blame her? I cannot imagine what she must have thought & felt about her dad. His entire family doomed to death & misery from the start. Horrific. And I could have done without seeing murder.

@gemguy6812

Жыл бұрын

Stalin had Hitler beat in murder's

@chongpihaokip4300

Жыл бұрын

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When I was in college in Vietnam taking international history, my instructor cited Stalin's phrase "I don't exchange a private for a field Marshall" with so much pride, i did not know the whole context. The propaganda made it like Stalin had sacrificed his family for the cause of the nation. Anyway, the worst actions that Svetlana took was to marry someone within a short time. Also, being raised as a privileged daughter in the former Soviet Union would not make her successful in the United States at all. She did not understand the concept of earning money and making a plan for the old age.

@jameslong9921

Жыл бұрын

An interesting perspective

@tetoffense7659

Жыл бұрын

I think she subconsciously needed to suffer as she didn't deserve any better.

Thanks so much for the eye opening documentary.

The best historical evidence suggests that Svetlana's mother committed suicide. Of course, Stalin was a ruthless SOB so anything is possible. But this documentary should have at least mentioned that the most plausible explanation offered by most historians (Russian and non-Russian) is that she committed suicide.

@hanaluong2672

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking that Stalin either beat her to death or shot her. But the documentary only suggested a suicide.

@NickVenture1

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Also Stalin later took revenge on the family member who had brought the automatic pistol as a gift to his wife, from Germany. "Couldn't you have brought her something better?"

@DistractedDaisy

Жыл бұрын

Like all of the current suicidal oligarchs. Very ironic.

@daisylu1973

6 ай бұрын

She was veryyy vocal against Stalin & had a very huge public fight. Many of Stalin's flying monkeys were critical of her & might had feared she could influenced him. They could had killed her, unbeknownst to him & made it looked like suicide. She was a strong woman, a fighter & stood up to him. I seriously doubt that she killed herself & leave her children in the middle of that craziness!!!

A heartrending and wonderful film, thank you so much.

Who told you that Vasilii Stalin was buried alongside of his mother?. He died and was buried in the city of Kazan and later was exhumed and taken to Georgia for burial. Have you guys researched the facts before putting together this movie? I doubt it….I doubt that he was imprisoned, he was, probably, arrested for a short time and sent to exile to the city of Kazan where he worked at the plant manufacturing military jets. He indeed suffered from alcoholism and died as a consequence. And as I wrote earlier he was buried at Arsk cemetery in the city of Kazan.

@freddykrueger139

17 күн бұрын

On November 20, 2002, his body was reburied at the Troekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Amazing story of an incredible woman.

There needs to be a documentary on how she lost her money! 3 million back then was an obscene amount of money. And that was only for her first book.

@alextaylor8776

Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same, how in the heck could one person who didn’t live a high lifestyle go through all that money. Boggles the mind. I guess buying that farm for her husbands son went through a bit but not three million plus her royalties from her book.

@micah4242

Жыл бұрын

She gave it away to charities.

She was obviously an incredible woman. How she could get so many men to fall in love with her and marry her quickly. Even the right hand of Frank Lloyd Wright. An amazing story

@Rabithebengali

Жыл бұрын

she had a high I.Q. im not saying thats the reason

@freespiritable

3 ай бұрын

Her father being the "tzar" of Russia might've played a great role. Opportunists trying to climb up the power ladder

@lemarjames9546

Ай бұрын

Yea an incredible woman who abandoned her kids

Thank you. History is revealed one more time.

As mentioned, Svetlana was the wife of Wesley Peters, the chief assistant architect of Frank Lloyd Wright. But she was Peterson's second wife. His first wife was also named Svetlana. She was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright and his Yugoslavian wife Olgivanna.

@williamj.stockich

8 ай бұрын

@DONNELLO Your comment brought me back to my regret over the way I stated my own. Long ago, when I first learned that Wesley Peters had two wives, both named Svetlana, I thought that it had to be one of the strangest coincidences ever. How many women in America had the name Svetlana? I'm Slavic myself and have never heard of that name except for these two. Yet in my post I failed to emphasize the coincidence that motivated me in the first place.

That was her dad. No one talk about him. You defend your family because you love them no matter what they have done. It's hard for other people to understand some times in life.

@AyAngelchillfoo1315

Жыл бұрын

Idk about that

She was destined to die as she died because she was spoiled & vulnerable,never knowing how to take care of herself. $3- million was a LOT of money in 1967 equal to $27- mil in 2022. She never knew the value of money, nor cared to. Place on top of that the trauma she suffered growing up, I’m surprised she was as mentally stable as she was. I wonder if she ever met with the woman who faked being the sole survivor of the Tzar family murdered at time of the revolution? She was living in a small modest house just outside Washington DC.

@tetoffense7659

Жыл бұрын

I think it was self inflicted. Subconscious or not, she needed to suffer as penance.

Thank you ..❤❤❤❤❤

Khrushchev's son forgot to tell his father participated very actively in Stalin's purges.

@miareynolds1174

Жыл бұрын

Also Mikoyan's son forgot to mention, that his father was even worse, than Stalin(((

@nbkhafula8381

Жыл бұрын

Selectively too! ✅

@georgealevriadis897

11 ай бұрын

And what choice they had????

She was petrified of the KGB coming after her. My sister went to elementary school with Olga briefly and my mother befriended Svetlana. When she sold her house in NJ (not Princeton but Pennington) the new owners would drive by to show family the house they were buying and Svetlana thought it was the KGB. I know it was the new owners because my mother knew them and I became friends with one of their daughters.

@arpan9937

Жыл бұрын

Sleepers??

Fantastic listening to this documentary.

@get.factual

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

, excellent documentary

My Dad has her book 'Svetlana' first edition. She couldn't ever get away from the shadow of her father and wow, did she go through men.

@kccox8516

Жыл бұрын

Running from her brokenheart, and mind, so terribly devastating, and sad. 😢

@redtobertshateshandles

Жыл бұрын

Did you see her ?? Chew your own arm off in the morning, so you can sneak out.

@daisylu1973

6 ай бұрын

"Going through men" is a childhood trauma response. People judge harshly without knowing that it's just their subconscious pain acting out 🥺

Thanks 🙏👍

a Tragedy,without Ending!!! So many-all over the world-live the sins of the Fathers!!! To me; the greatest Tragedy IS; The continuation of ALL!! In my life the learning has never seased: " World Peace Begins At Home"

Wow Svetlana caught a hissy fit. Not wanting to talk about her father. She did not realize that without the fact of who her father was no one would want to interview her. And to make matters worse she did nothing in life to distinguish herself in any way.

@stinareed7622

11 ай бұрын

Who said she wanted to be interviewed? She wrote two books. Did you?

May you finally find peace Svetlana. Be that guilding light that seemed to be in you!

Sins of the fathers always catches up with the innocent children...very sad. A common life is far much happier.

even this documentary is more about her father

@deeplorable8988

Жыл бұрын

She was a spoiled brat.

Triste historia 😭 la sombra de su padre siempre la persiguió

Rather tragic, sad. Very interesting.

Lovely, ... & my mother and her sister were starving, their father was in prison fir wanting a free Ukraine & their mother was struggling, fighting in lines just to get bad bread.

What a tragic life. Trying to run away from a father with a legacy of Love, Hate, Fear and Respect all at the same time.....

@henriettaakande2973

Жыл бұрын

It was very well presented by the filmmakers and I enjoyed watching it . But l noticed that that none of the films about Svetlana mentioned ( perhaps they didn't know) that she died in Bristol (UK) were she was living in one of retirement homes, receiving reasonable state pension. I learnt about it from a couple who stayed at the same place. They spoke to me about her when they leant that l was from Russia. They also said that they had to organize her funeral as no relatives or old friends turned up for her funeral. Perhaps the retirement home was somewhere near Whiteladys Road in Bristol as l spoke to them at an Exercise Club off Whiteladys Rd.

What a mom ! Leaves her kids (17 year old daughter) behind in Soviet Union !

@deeplorable8988

Жыл бұрын

She was a spoiled brat.

@ank337

Жыл бұрын

@@deeplorable8988 true !

@nataliaschmelzer2469

9 ай бұрын

Don't judge. She was intelligent woman, so thankful for her memoirs. Svetlana❤️

Just because he was a. Monster doesn't mean she was its a coin toss we don't ask for the parents we wamt you get what you get some are lucky, some not so much, sometime a nightmare. Pol pots.daughter is a kind person

@janestones323

Жыл бұрын

Do you have the proofs of him been monstrous as you call him so!?

@lisamomon6793

Жыл бұрын

@@janestones323 Stalin is up there with Hitler, Mussolini ,Pol Pot and other strong man leader who lead there people to war and genocide also rcausng the death of people close to them duei there own paranoia

Well done.

Wow Stalin who was a Georgian suddenly became Russian.

She is the ray or star wars She actually entered the usa already a milionare.She was worth 9milioj dollars

Very interesting! I just subscribed.

What a family story.

How dreadfully sad…

Funny how A son dies but an daughter escape the shadow of her father alive respect to that.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

❤

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva was definitely her father’s son, from her angry outbreaks to her several marriages to her iron will. She either didn’t or wouldn’t acknowledge that she was of interest only because she was Stalin’s daughter. Her father was responsible for millions upon millions of deaths, and he also murdered her mother. How can one live with such burdens? I’m fortunate to have had wonderful parents. Poor little rich girl Svetlana. 😢

@Rabithebengali

Жыл бұрын

her mother commited suicide-so i guess maybe, in a way

@user-ry7vt7db6l

11 ай бұрын

False. Pure fabrications. Aren't u tired of defaming Stalin. U have been doing this since the 1930's?

@ninomikautadze5108

10 ай бұрын

The reality is absolutly different...

I do not admire her or her brother’s how hard it must of been in youth unaware then while maturing becoming aware of the monster their father truly was and yet loving him . Her children yes that was hard for them cause it’s still being abandoned even if they are 17 and 21 that’s sad . The part of her life where her brother is denied the trade that horrific to me how one with so much power could have did the trade but his twisted ego of power over powered love of ones own child . I don’t believe starlings children were like him they suffered cause they were his children. I pray the 2 girls are ok

They say the children pay the price of the sins of their parents….

I found her daughters store in Portland, but it was closed. Wonder if she opened somewhere else.

How does one process the fact that their father is perhaps the worst monster in the history of the modern world - worse even than Hitler?

@gerryhouska2859

Жыл бұрын

Killed a lot more than Hitler, not as many as Mao.

@LawsAndCultureDictateBehavior

Жыл бұрын

She probably didn't care and loved being pampered

Secrets are like zombies.. they never truly die.

സുഭഗ സുന്ദര കമ്മ്യൂണിസ്റ്റ്‌ വ്യവസ്ഥ...

It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that she died:"in utter poverty". Anyone believeing that has not SEEN "utter poverty".

49:28, Svetlana explodes in anger.

@alextaylor8776

Жыл бұрын

That was scary.

@patmiddleton3947

Жыл бұрын

@@alextaylor8776 just a HissyFit,you scare easily.

@alextaylor8776

Жыл бұрын

@@patmiddleton3947 I do, I’m getting old.

Why is the narrator calling her Svetlanner? And Olger? It’s SvetlanUH. And OlgUH.

Listen joey Stalin was as ruthless as they come Yakov his son was more of a hero and a man Stalin could of ever been

@hanaluong2672

Жыл бұрын

When I was young, I "learnt" that the Germans killed him. It was probably part of the Soviet propaganda. It was more logically that he committed suicide, due to no future ahead of him, if/when he could return to Russia. Stalin mistreated his daughter-in-law, Yakov's wife, even though he liked her. His reason was that her husband had not had the courage of committing suicide just before he was arrested.

Whats up with the sons and the tragedy of their young lives?....does it ensure no successors then or is it comeuppance for the atrocities of blood on the hands of Stalin?

In April 12, 1967 Svetlana arrives in New York at 42.

After seeing the movie "The Death of Stalin," I wondered what happened to Svetlana. Now I know. Sad life. I was happy to see that Stalin's grandson looked nothing like him. The world could do without another Stalin. Could also do without a Putin for that matter.

Truth evetually manifests itself.

Why do the crowds cry for this monster??

16:10, this witness testifies that Stalin was an affectionate father.

@ms.chrisie8040

Жыл бұрын

WHY do I find this hard to believe???

@McIntyreBible

Жыл бұрын

@@ms.chrisie8040 it's not hard to believe; even a monster like Stalin can show affection when they want to!

@Gail-gf7km

Жыл бұрын

Hitler could also be affectionate.

@McIntyreBible

Жыл бұрын

@@Gail-gf7km yes, that's certainly true, because I've seen him in films & photographs with children cuddling them affectionately. But only as long as they were white. Hahahahahaha!

@jackandblaze5956

Жыл бұрын

It's normal for abusive psychopathic narcissists to show affection when you do what they want you to do. Jeffrey Dahmer was also capable of showing affection

The most famous defector was Rudolf Nureyev.

Fall in love with her get thrown into a gulag a year later she is with someone else while you suffer was it worth it really 😢😢

the most interesting thing about that girl imo it's that she is among the first people bearing it and being a daughter of stalin it helped to popularise it further, that name is an interesting one because before the revolution a human couldn't be named like that but a warship or a literary heroine could since the russian orthodox church didn't recognise it, it was invented in one 19th century poem and got pretty popular but... unusable. after the revolution people stopped caring about the church opinions and furthermore the modern russian orthodox church recognised it by finding a patron saint, saint photina, with a differently sounding but similar in the meaning (lightbearer, lighty... not exactly but you got the idea) name

@nyaanekonya

Жыл бұрын

it - her name of course lol

So sad...😢

Svetlana ....definition? Of the Stars? Sky? Heavens? Anyone know for certain?

@zory6509

Жыл бұрын

Light

Very interesting but a lot of obvious gaps. Perhaps some fear of genetic sociopathic tendencies would be valid too. thanks

Not AlliluEva, but AllilUeva. (the name comes ftom "Alleluja")

6:30

Again, Stálin was a bloody JESUIT!!!

Yes, he was Stalin, who said his son, " I'm not Stalin, the entire Soviet people are Stalin." He was the same Stalin who refused to exchange his own son captivated by the Nazi Germany with Paulus, the German General. He built up Soviet Union.

@helmuthj.zotter7272

Жыл бұрын

He build up Soviet Union ? On more than 20 MILLION Russians that were killed under his Terror regime ! You need to learn about history before you write such nonsense !

When confronted on Stalin’s murderous barbarism: “My father never hurt anyone.”

Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree with her. She seemed courageous, thoughtful, empathetic...and abandons her teenage children in Russia to go to the US and be "I'm free!" and be paranoid like her dad. If she had taken time to listen to people she would have been amazing.

@bunjijumper5345

10 ай бұрын

I don't think she's such a bad person.

She turned to be as crazy as her father.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sergei K, the political scientist, should have stuck to speaking Russian. I understood almost nothing he said. Must have been full of pride of speaking a foreign language. Very foreign to him, indeed. 🤦‍♂️

So sorry for these poor kids! It's our duty to save them ! Tell me - I have seen enough and years ago I travelled to Somalia - you are aware that even with little food, water and the basic things to live the reality is the following: girls forced to marry as young 13 and are always pregnant if they survive by the age of 30 they give birth to 8/10 children half will die in the first 24 months and they suffer every day of their life....is it normal, is it ethically acceptable ? First thing to do to spare them pain before they die would be to help the mothers not to become pregnant ..every unborn child will be spared hell on earth and also help the others to live more decently. A balanced BIRTH CONTROL policy MUST be proposed and made acceptable....the "fathers" forced to take responsibility I know that it will not happen because of silly excuses like "it's their culture" really? In some way you are also responsible for this endless chain of sufferance.

@renataostertag6051

Жыл бұрын

100% correct! The suffering of small children must end! NOW! It has been lasting for tens of thousands of years.

@americanstalker5265

Жыл бұрын

First of all stop opposing American law and Authority on other nations🐺🐺🐺

So even as an old woman she’s throwing tantrums. That’s classy! 🙄🙄🙄

@mike7gerald

Жыл бұрын

She let out poisonous hostility--we needed to see that to know how unhappy she was.

So accidental death is a Russian thing.

If his daughter had called him out on any of his private behavior or public failings or political killings, he wouldn’t have been an affectionate father any more-extreme physiologic naricissist.

@llamamama2910

Жыл бұрын

Psychopathic

@EMvanLoon

Жыл бұрын

Svetlana wouldn't have been anywhere too...

@stinareed7622

11 ай бұрын

He might have killedher like he did her mother.

So his father was a Cobbler huh 🤔 very interesting and is starting to make more sense now as a Cobbler secrets gives them ability to walk in someone else's shoes 👞 and can set whomever they want in a certain positions in life.

@jameslong9921

Жыл бұрын

What?

@genooneg7813

Жыл бұрын

@@jameslong9921 it's a joke relating it to the movie 🎬 The Cobbler by Adam Sandler.

@jameslong9921

Жыл бұрын

@@genooneg7813 ahhh whooshed right over my head that one 😊

@genooneg7813

Жыл бұрын

@@jameslong9921 lol hahaha

@genooneg7813

Жыл бұрын

@@jameslong9921 I know what you mean.

While it was obvious the Russian Empire was in a bad way and in a major need of a progressive and industrious tsar, there were none to be had. Problem is the last truly progressive Romanov was Catherine the Great. Almost every tsar in the 19th century was more concerned with maintaining autocracy than advancing the country and people themselves. Unfortunately they had to go bc they were all obsessed with their own personal power. They were treated like gods and Russia as their personal property. Their selfishness brought about an all powerful tsar that killed millions upon millions. Stalin made himself the tsar, communism the religion, and Russia as the most important. He made some slight changes to what every Russian already was accustomed.

@user-vt1xy5ts6h

3 ай бұрын

Stalin was monarchist. Saved Russia from comunism. 70% of Russians still like him for that!

Pretty girl she was. Sad to see her getting this hysterical attack in the old people's home at the end of this video. Weird that I think Svetlana was exactly the type of girls Adolf Hitler very much liked. Kind of Geli.

It must have been hard for her.

There is an illegitimate son, who is an engineer!

@mk6022

Жыл бұрын

Svetlana's son or Stalin's son?

@bullygram

Жыл бұрын

@@mk6022 Stalin's son, when Stalin was in hiding before becoming a leader!

It would be better production if the reader learnt pronounce the names of the main personages in this story...

Rosie O'Donnell

She had a hard life. She wanted out of Russia.

At the age of sixteen, Alliluyeva fell in love with Aleksei Kapler, a Jewish Soviet filmmaker who was 38-years-old. The wrath of Stalin is that case no because for he haved prejudice to jews.

@Vlad79500

Жыл бұрын

“On the morning of March 3, when I was getting ready for school, my father unexpectedly came home, which was completely unusual ... I had never seen my father like this. Usually restrained in both words and emotions, he was choking with anger, he could hardly say: “Where, where is all this? he said. “Where are all those letters from your writer?” It is impossible to convey with what contempt he pronounced the word “writers” “I know everything! All your telephone conversations - here they are, here! He patted his pocket. - Well! Come here! Your Kapler is an English spy, he is under arrest!” My father tore and threw letters and photographs into the basket. "Writer," he muttered. - Can't really write in Russian! You couldn't find a Russian for yourself!” The fact that Kapler is a Jew seemed to irritate him most of all..." /Svetlana Alliluyeva. "Twenty Letters to a Friend"/.

@LifeInPink999

8 ай бұрын

That and because he was almost 40 going after his teenage daughter. I mean a normal father would have been angry Stalin was a psychopath and his word was law. Seems like a very poor decision from that guys part, she was a teen and given that she married a year after shows that she obviously didn’t harbor any deep feelings for him. I would have felt bad for him if he wasn’t 38 going after a 16 year old whose father happens to be Stalin, it’s like asking for death regardless Stalins dislike for Jews or not.

It shows that schizophrenic paranoia runs in the family

Stalin was a great man, just look at what Russia has become under his rule. Only Putin can tip his hat at his accomplishments!

@thepeskytraveller3870

Жыл бұрын

As long as people can live with the blood of millions spilled, and sleep well at night, I guess we can call him great.

Too weird for me,,sounds like a blown up tragic soap opera.

ता.सिक वातावरण का असर अच्छी आत्म पर भी प्रभाव पडता है

Why do I get the feeling Rosa Shand dreams of a USSRA