WHY HAVE ADMINISTRATIONS IGNORED STALIN'S DAUGHTER?

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200180003-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 4, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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4 APR 1970
Svetlana A11ilyyeva's 'Qn1y One Year'
~^9Gay C9av~ Ao1~ui~uas~~afo~u~s 0~asored "x.~
By JAIME ADAMS
.lfter reading Srctlana Alliluycva's
second book OnIJ? One 1'eur, one is
Importantly, Stalin s daughter states
that her father was evil-not insane--
and maintains that the system was no
less evil because it 'allowed him to
flourish and protected him.
"My father had been a clcspot and
again reminded of the tremendous sig- ' ~j
nificance of her defection to the West ~+ J ~ t ~ ~ ~ ,~ ~ ~ ~ ir' Y ~ r
and the unfortunate failure of both Y + . ~'/ ~ ~ ~ I o
the Johnson and Nixon Administrations ~
e or technical problem solved, it docsn t
to utilize this couragcouswoman'srsca
p
and subsequent commentary on Soviet mind using Jewish talent, but Jcws are
lift as important weapons in she Cold consciously removed from the decision-
~Var. ;making process. It is said that Andrei
it is incredible to think that Jose h ~ Gromyko vetoed a young man with
p brilliant qualifications for the foreign
Stalin's daughter, who knew virtually service solciy on the grounds that ho
a!i the top Soviet brass and led a far was Jewish. As Miss Altiiuyevastresses,
easier lift than most Russians, stilt dc- .this did not take place in the 'SQs under
spiscci communism so much that she was ,her father. but in 1966-a point that
willing to risk her lift, lose hcr'toved .Jerry Rubin, et al., might wish to pon-
ones and leave Russia vrith nothing but der.
the ciathcs on her back. ,
How splendid it would be to sec
Henry Kissinger occasionally squire ibis
- to~cly and gracious woman around Wash-
,,. _
mgton society as well as such anti-
Nixonitcs as Gloria Stcincm and IIarbara
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A bit further on, she says that the
purges could stars again at any time . ;
for "the apparatus, created and trained ~'
by Stalin, has only been temporarily
switched off ...the way one pulls an , :?
eicctric plug out of its socket. But
the machinery itself is intact. Just plug
it in and it will work again."
to ner portrayal of Jpvcel are,
Svetlana icaves the reader with tht
impression that the most degrading
aspect of life under communism is
the endless picking, meddling and
snooping by bureaucrats.
The most routine matter, such as {
moving or gcttin{; library books. becomes t.
a major project with numerous bureau- i
While Dr. Kissingcr's reputation as' had brought about a bloody terror,
millions of innocent people
destro
in
.. !
g
y
a "secret swinger" might drop a notch
or two, his knowledge of Soviet foreign but ...the whose system which had'
made it possible was profoundly corrupt ., .j
poii~y might go up. ;Miss Alliiuyeva, ' , ,all its participants could not escape t :
for instance, could impart some interest- responsibility no mallet how hard they :,
ing perspective on one of the Adminis- tried." '
'
~
tration
s most thorny problems: Sovici ?
,.
' intransigence toward Israel, She discusses de-Statinization under ?
k
h
h=
Soviet anti-Semifism, she main- '
iains, has become the "militant of-
fical idcotoby" of flit Communist ??
party, an asticrtion that bolsters the
opinion of a number of Cold Wat
ticholars that Soviet enmity toward
ltiract may t-c fueled uc much by
what mafiraler t:cr:dd l,.K. Sniilh
? She is convinced that her father hated
Jcws because of his bitter struggle for
power v,?ith Leon Trotsky (whom Stalin
iatcr had killed) and that the Great
Terror was initiated in large part to cid
the Sorict hierarchy of ]cws. Today
So~?ict uni~crsitics have strict ]cwiish
quotas and she maintains there arc nv
]ea?s serving on the party's Central
Committee.
When the party needs some sdentific
crate getting involved and the con-
comitant delays, mind changes, permits,
and requisition slips. "Oh, those ~v~r-
changing whims of Moscow!" she erip i
out,
Whiic government office buildingscon-
Khrushchev and remar
s that K
rus
k,tinue to mushroom, families living in
chev fatted in his attempts to liberalize "bne-room apartments find it extremely
the government because he "was unable 'difficult to have repairs made. Doctors
to get his way with the party apparatus. :'complain that massive paperwork keeps ,
Too much has to be smashed. Ho was ; ~ t~-cm from patients and study.
afraid to do it. In the end he paid Scholars are continually hampered in j
for it-the uppurutc/rik! gat; rid of him. 1ltcir research because they can't travel
"Khrushchev couldn't openly declare and must get permission to read foreign
chat the party ,itself had supported the ;publications. Soviet artists never know
'cult of Stalin' and Chat, after yicldingi from one day to the next what subjects
him the full measure of power, it had ,arc taboo. Shoppers must wait in tin'ie- ~
become the obedient agent of his ab.+ 'consuming queues because few market
solute will. ",. places are permitted.
"Hy fearing to admit the party's guilt ' Speaking to foreignersisfrowned upon,
and dumping all the blame on the but attending party meetings and par-
trrr?iblc dyad man, hr had cloqucntly ticipating in planned rccrcation are cn-
discrcdited not only himself but the cauraged. Communism has made Rus- ~~ ,
entire party. For this the party could stone into a pcopk who unconsciously ;
not forgive him. ~ talk in undertones, something Madame
"It became clear to the whole world Aililuyeva didn't evtn realize until she
that a totalitarian regime could. neither Itad an opportunuty to five in india.
accuse nor transform itself; suicide watt Tho Russians, she contends, aro forced ,
not in its nature. it could only kill into a position of continuous diaimula-
other:." . ..
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