Quotes About Nadya

By 1918 Nadya's letters hint that she has fallen in love with Stalin. Svetlana explains that Nadya "had only begun to grow when the Revolution broke out, whereas he [Stalin] was already a man nearly forty, an age of hardened scepticism and cold calculation and all the other qualities important in a politician.

I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.