Iosif Grigor'evich Alliluyev (22 May 1945 – 2 November 2008) was a Russia

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n cardiologist and the grandson of Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

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The son of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva , later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife...

, Iosif was seven-years-old when his father and famous grandfather died, both in 1953. Although he kept a low profile, he did take part in a television interview on Russian Channel One

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. He spoke about his relationship with his mother and how she fled to the United States

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Alliluyev died on 2 November 2008.