What makes this even more ironic is that Stalin's daughter would ultimately defect to the United States in the 1960s

Brajesh Singh (Hindi: ब्रजेश सिंह, Kunwar Brijesh Singh or Brajesh Singh Lal;(1909– 1966) was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (CPI). He hailed from the royal family of Kalakankar near Allahabad, and his nephew Dinesh Singh was a minister in the Indian cabinet. Singh studied English at a college in Lucknow. He later moved to Berlin, to pursue an engineering education. In 1928, M. N. Roy was expelled from the Communist International, he then moved to Berlin and from there he enlisted the help of several Indian students. Singh was one of those students who became an active communist and began closely working with him to establish the Group of Oppositional Indian Communists that would be affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany Opposition and INC. The primary reason for the establishment of the organisation was to protest the Ultra-leftist attitude of the Communist International in India. While in India, Roy also suggested that Indian communists were distancing themselves from the Nationalist movement. In October 1963, while recuperating from bronchitis at Kuntsevo Hospital, Singh met Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalins youngest daughter from his second wife Nadezhda (eho had ended her life with a gunshot following a troubled life with Joseph)  who was there for a tonsillectomy.At the time, Svetlana was reading a biography on Mahatma Gandhi and wanted to ask an Indian like Singh about the subject. After bumping into each other in the corridors, they took a seat on a nearby couch and had keen conversation for an hour. A romantic relationship followed.As per the terms of his visa, Singhs return to India was scheduled after he was discharged from the Kuntsevo Hospital. However, he and Svetlana came up with a new plan, where Singh would go to Russia from India and work as a translator of Russian texts into Hindi. He left for India in December 1963 and went to Russia in March 1965. He landed in Sheremetyevo Airport on 7 April and was welcomed by Svetlana and her son Joseph.Josephs remarks regarding meeting Singh is quoted below: Singh was a nice sort of person, cultured, kind. . . . It was very enjoyable to be with him. . . . He was calm and patient and also knew how to look upon things with a certain sense of humour. . . . He came to live with us, and to Katya and he was our mothers husband, and we treated him with respect. I think she was happy. Svetlana had hastily married three times before making the urgent decision to marry Singh due to his critical health; Singh also had refused to return to India without her, and she was required to be his wife to travel with. To register for marriage due to being a foreigner, he and Svetlana had visited Moscow office on 3 May. The next day Svetlana was ordered to summon to Alexei Kosygins office in Kremlin.After arriving in the office which once belonged to her father, she was asked why she had stopped attending party meetings. Svetlana answered that she had to take care of her family and now she had a sick husband.—  Angered at the word husband, Kosygin is recorded to have said about Singh: What have you cooked up? You, a young healthy woman, a sportswoman, couldnt you have found someone here, I mean someone young and strong? What do you want with this old sick Hindu? No, we are all positively against it, positively against it! Svetlana was officially disallowed the right to register to marry Singh. Due to the turmoil and unrest in the Gorky institution due to it publishing anti-Soviet propaganda and organising political rallies where Svetlana worked. Singh was isolated after falling under the governments scrutiny, his Indian friends in Moscow stopped visiting him. Indian Ambassador to Moscow, Triloki Nath Kaul and Ambassador of UAR, Murad Ghalib were the only friends who continued to visit. Dinesh Singh, his nephew, who under the pro-Soviet government headed by Indira Gandhi, had become the deputy minister of the Department of Foreign Affairs stopped responding to him. Only Suresh Singh, his brother, continued to write from Kalakankar. The translation work Singh did for the publishing house Progress also came under the scrutiny of Vladimir N. Pavlov, the English Divisions chief editor and former translator at Yalta and correspondent to Churchill under Stalin. It had now become increasingly clear to Singh that political machinations were trying to disrepute him as being incompetent so that his legal right to stay in the USSR could be revoked. Singh soon became critically ill. After being admitted and wrongly diagnosed with tuberculosis at Intourist Polyclinic, he was taken back into Kuntsevo Hospital by Svetlana. She began spending her entire day with him at the hospital, where they talked about India and sometimes read the Vedic hymns. Singh was also visited by his ambassador friends during his stay at the hospital. But despite all the visits made, each time he became more ill. On Sunday 30 October, after being visited by his friends and colleagues from the publishing house, Singh had a dream of a white bullock pulling a cart. Afterward he told Svetlana that in India, the dream was considered as an omen of approaching death, Sveta, I know that I will die today. At 7 A.M, Monday, 31 October 1966, Singh while pointing at his heart and then at his head, said that he felt something throbbing, and then he passed away at his home. Singhs death was quick and calm. Svetlana did not weep at Singhs death and shortly afterward she contacted his Indian friends who lived in Russia. When Singhs friends arrived, they burned sandalwood, recited verses from the Bhagavad Gita (Hindu holy scripture), and the next day they took Singhs body to the crematorium

This reminds me of [this scene here](https://youtu.be/jPLduQIZFzQ?t=129) so hard

Left: Stalin when Beria Right: Stalin when Beria is around Stalins daughter

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