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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

"You wanna know where fucking Polnikov is? You wannago there?"

Portrayed By: Adrian McLoughlin

The eponymous old tyrant, total ruler of the Soviet Union until his death in 1953. Although he's only alive for the first fifth of the movie, his shadow obviously looms large over the rest of it.

• Almost Dead Guy: Played with; he briefly revives from his coma, but thanks to his stroke, he's completely incapable of coherent communication, barely any higher cognitive functions remaining, and spen
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  When Josef Stalin`s only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defected to the West in 1967, she repudiated her father, communism and the Soviet system.

  But she changed her mind.

  When Alliluyeva made her grandly publicized return to the Soviet Union in November, 1984, she said she had not known a single day of freedom in the West.

  Now, according to informed Soviet sources, she has changed her mind again.

  Soviet journalist Viktor Louis said Monday he had been told that Alliluyeva, 59, is trying to leave the USSR and send her daughter to a school in England.

  Louis often serves as a conduit for official information.

  U.S. diplomats confirmed that Alliluyeva had discussed her case with consular officials in Moscow, although they declined to give details.

  Louis said it is likely Soviet authorities will grant exit papers to Alliluyeva`s daughter Olga, 14, whose father, William Peters, is an American. Alliluyeva was divorced from Peters, her third husband, in 1973. He now lives in Arizona.

  ”From a legal point of view, Svetlana is a Soviet citizen,” Louis said. ”She cann

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  Man of Steel’s Child BrideRussian-born New Yorker explores Stalin’s troubled second marriage

  FILM

  STALIN’S WIFE Directed by Slava Tsukerman

  In English and Russian, with English subtitles

  Quad Cinema

  212-255-8800

  Opens Apr. 29

  Cinetron Productions

  Slava Tsukerman, on the right, the director of “Liquid Sky,” has made a documentary about Joseph Stalin’s second marriage in 1919 to Nadezhda Alliluyeva, pictured above, a 16-year-old girl who 14 years later would die in her bed of a gunshot wound to the head.

  Man of Steel’s Child Bride

  Russian-born New Yorker explores Stalin’s troubled second marriage

  She was 16, he was 39. That’s not so unusual, but the man in this case was a rough-hewn Georgian from Tiflis named Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, back from four years exile in Siberia just in time for the revolution—though on the great dangerous day itself, November 7, 1917 (old calendar), he was, they say, nowhere to be found.

  Be that as it may, during the next three and a half decades this man, Joseph Stal