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Svetlana Alliluyeva...aka Lana Peters...Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's only daughter...died of colon cancer...at age 85...in a central Wisconsin nursing home.
She defected in 1967...embarrassing the Soviets.
She also wrote four books, including two best-selling memoirs.
In India...she burned her Soviet passport...and denounced communism and her father.
She called Stalin "a moral and spiritual monster".
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