Stalini lapselaps
Russian Language 2. Translation. "Stalin's Grandson"
Theatre director Alexandr Burdonsky only rarely gives interviews about his family history and about what
happened to him after Stalin's death: "I was fifteen years old when the 20 th Congress took place and
Khrushchev gave his secret speech about the cult of personality and its consequences and about all the people
who had suffered under Stalin. The speech was no revelation for me. Many of my mother's friends had spent
time in prison camps. She herself was constantly under threat of arrest. I knew about all this and I had the
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