Stalin Daughter Won’t Get Out, Soviet Writer Predicts

Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Josef Stalin who came back from the West in 1984, is trying to leave the Soviet Union again and send her daughter to an English school, a semi-official Soviet journalist confirmed today.

Viktor Louis, who often acts as a source for official information, said he understood Alliluyeva’s 14-year-old daughter, Olga, whose father is American, could leave. But he thought her own chances were doubtful.

Louis said Alliluyeva had left the southern Soviet republic of Georgia, where she had been living since her return, and was in Moscow trying to get exit permission from the authorities.

Louis said he understood that Western press reports that Olga was already abroad were incorrect.

On Saturday, the State Department said Alliluyeva, 59, who returned after 17 years in the West in November, 1984, had met consular officials to discuss her case.

When Alliluyeva returned here in a blaze of publicity, she told reporters her 1967 defection had been a huge mistake, she had never enjoyed a free day in the West and now wanted peace.

Alliluyeva was given back her Soviet citizenship by a special decree in 1984. She had earlier burned her Soviet passport.

Soviet officials have said privately that the Kremlin regards Alliluyeva as a troubled individual and that she was accorded tolerance as a returning defector because of her position as Stalin’s daughter.

At her 1984 news conference, Alliluyeva effectively made a public repentance for her defection, regarded as treasonable under Soviet law. She said she had been manipulated by the CIA and she warned other would-be defectors not to betray their homeland.