My takeaway from the Svetlana Alliluyeva book is that she lived such a weird and tragic life but oh my god the whole Taliesin interlude takes the cake. Just... what an absolutely insane plan, on Olgivanna's part. "I need to finance my architecture-and-spiritualism cult, so I'm going to lure in Stalin's daughter and pressure her to marry my former son-in-law by emphasizing the fact she has the same name as his dead wife/my dead daughter" ma'am WHAT.
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