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Do despots beget sinners or saints?
Children of famous people often find it hard to live up to the reputation or legacy of their parents. So what of children of despots?
That's a question Jay Nordlinger has been asking himself. He's the senior editor of the National Review magazine in the US and also the author of the just published book : "Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators"
(Photo: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who defected to the United States in 1967 and became a vocal critic of the Soviet Union. Credit: AFP)
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