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Children of Dictators

Behind the Bastards

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Svetlana's Dad, I Love Him Dad

Svetlana fell in love with a young boy named Kepler. Stalin became convinced Kepler was a British spy. He also wasn't wild about the fact that Kepler was Jewish. Svetlana said you know but I love him dad. Love screamed my father with a hatred of the very wordI can scarcely convey and for the first time in his life he slapped me across the face twice. Who'd want you you fool? He's got women all around him. So that's what that's Stalin. That's how you explain disappearing.

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