Today in History, March 6

By The Moscow Times
Josef Stalin with his daughter Svetlana in 1935.
Forty-seven years ago today, on March 6, 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva asked for asylum at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi. From there, Stalin's only daughter emigrated to the U.S. via Switzerland

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