"When my mother left us, [Stalin] was left completely alone. And I think what came next, in the late 30s and after the war in the 40s - I think that was a result of his complete loneliness on top of the world. Nobody would argue with him any more."
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Anti-imperialistsAtheistsGeneral Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionSoviet premiersPeople from Georgia (country)
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Svetlana Alliluyeva, as quoted in Stalin's daughter Lana Peters dies in US of cancer, BBC News, (29 November, 2011).
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