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Stalin’s Daughter Confirms Soviet Bias Against Jewish Students

April 27, 1967
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Mrs. Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, told a press conference here today that she knew very little about discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union from which she has obtained asylum in this country.

Speaking at her first press conference since arriving in the United States last Friday, Mrs. Alliluyeva added, that she had known that some Jewish applicants for Soviet universities had been refused admission when applicants of lesser qualifications were admitted.

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