![]() ![]() ![]() Those words especially stayed with me because I was in the midst of reading Oakland author Carolina De Robertis' impressive second novel, "Perla," which tells the story of the daughter of a man who, much like Stalin, carried out atrocities (in Argentina, rather than the Soviet Union), and of how his daughter has to come to terms with her legacy, a legacy she neither caused nor directly participated in - but one she can't hide from.Ī refresher: After what was called Argentina's Dirty War, from 1976 to 1983, the victorious junta of the Argentine army kidnapped and tortured a vast number - estimates range from 5,000 to 30,000 - of Argentine citizens who came to be known as "the disappeared." The junta targeted trade unionists and other leftists. No matter how hard I tried to explain that I had nothing to do with it, people refused to accept it." This is a quote of hers that stayed with me: "Of course I was used to living in the shadow of my father's name and politics. She married William Wesley Peters, whom she later divorced, and she died in Wisconsin, where she had lived for many years. ![]() ![]() Peters defected from the Soviet Union in 1967, 14 years after her father's death. In the car the other day, I heard part of an old BBC interview with Josef Stalin's daughter, Lana Peters. ![]()
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