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2.16.2012

Life in someone else's shadow...

  November 29, 2011, Richland County, Wisconsin... the only daughter of Joseph Stalin died. Quoting from a Time.com article marking the passing of LANA PETERS:

Lana Peters
In an interview with the Wisconsin State Journal in 2010, Peters revealed the psychological impact of some of the cruelty her father had inflicted upon her. “He was a very simple man. Very rude. Very cruel,” she said. “He broke my life.” [...]

“Wherever I go,” she said [...], “here, or Switzerland, or India, or wherever. Australia. Some island. I will always be a political prisoner of my father’s name.”

I wish that it had been different for her; I would like to think that she found a life out from under what had to have been a long, oppressive shadow.