Claim: Svetlana Alliluyeva was the daughter of Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin and his second wife, then in 1978 she became a naturalized citizen of the United States, and when asked at a New York conference in a 2010 interview, whether she agreed with her father's rule, she said that she was disapproving of a lot of his decisions.
Evidence: Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (née Stalina) (Russian: Светла́на Ио́сифовна Аллилу́ева, Georgian: სვეტლანა იოსების ასული ალილუევა; Russian: Сталина; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she caused an international furor when she defected to, and in 1978 became a naturalized citizen of, the United States. In a 2010 interview, she stated that his refusal to let her study arts and his treatment of Kapler were the two times that Stalin "broke my life", and that the latter loved her but was "a very simple man. When asked at a New York conference about whether she agreed with her father's rule, she said that she was disapproving of a lot of his decisions but also noted that the responsibility for them also lay with the Communist regime in general.