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AFP. 2 March 2003. Stalin's grandchildren keep distance from Soviet dictator. MOSCOW -- Stalin's grandchildren, who never had much contact with their grandfather, live far from the world of politics and seem neither to be tainted or gain much from their relation to the Soviet dictator. "Usually I saw Joseph Visarionovich (born Dzhugashvili) on the tribune during rallies. He never came to see us," said one of Stalin's two grandsons, Alexander Burdonsky. In a deliberate effort to distance himself from his notorious relative, he took the surname of his mother, Galina, wife of Vasily, who was born from the Soviet leader's second marriage. And Burdonsky, 61, went on to pursue a successful career as a producer at the Red Army theatre in Moscow. In contrast, his sister Tatiana kept her surname as Dzhugashvili. Yevgeny, a son from Stalin's first marriage, did the same. He even baptised his two sons Joseph and Yakov, after his grandfather and father, who died as a prisoner of war in the hands of the Germans. His sister, Galina, also kept her famous surname, and confided to the Russian newspaper Versia that "the more people attacked my grandfather the more highly I thought of him." "But I don't pretend to be objective," she added. His status as the grandson of Stalin has neither influenced his life nor career, Yevgeny insisted. "The only thing is that journalists interview me on the anniversaries of Stalin's birth and death," he told AFP. After an uneventful career in the Russian military-industrial complex, he briefly dabbled in politics in Georgia as the head of a small party of Communist reformers, before retiring. He is 67 today. But Yevgeny Dzhugashvili admits to one "great source of pride" that one of his own grandchildren, who lives in Tbilisi, is called ... Joseph Visarionovich Dzhugashvili. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProletarianNews http://www.utopia2000.org --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
