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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)