Stalin’s daughter would have liked to live in Fribourg. All her life, she kept a nostalgia for her stay at the Monastery of the Visitation, where she had taken refuge during her flight from the USSR to the United States. An independent researcher with a passion for history, Jean-Christophe Emmenegger meticulously investigated the reconstruction of the precise itinerary of the most famous defector of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva. Benefiting from long-held state archives and exclusive family documents, he unravels the true and the false in Operation Svetlana , a book that reads like a crime novel.
Interview with the author in French on radio: https://www.rts.ch/play/radio/forum/audio/les-six-semaines-de-svetlana-staline-en-suisse-interview-de-jean-christophe-emmenegger?id=9803423&station=a9e7621504c6959e35c3ecbe7f6bed0446cdf8da
When Stalin’s daughter emigrates from the Soviet Union in 1967, what do we know about her in Switzerland?
https://www.laliberte.ch/news/regions/canton/la-fille-de-staline-revait-de-vivre-a-fribourg-453917
Read an original newspaper article here in English: http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20%20Files/Svetlana/Svetlana%2020.pdf
The English NY Times article tells of the Visitation Nun who took care of her for the 3 weeks she stayed at the Monastery and other details!
and also from the NY Times: http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20%20Files/Svetlana/Svetlana%2019.pdf
