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GOVERNMENT > political celebrity > Svetlana Alliluyeva
Moscow, breathing fire...
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Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment. . . . Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new . . .
Source: Introduction to Twenty Letters to a Friend, 1967.
-- Svetlana Alliluyeva, (Feb 28 1926-2011), Russian-US political celebrity; She is the Russian-born daughter of Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin; her defection to the U.S. in 1967 caused an international sensation.