- Journalist | May 31, 1948 -
Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.
Svetlana Alexievich
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I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.
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Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the new order of things - and in each of these people is a bit of Putin. They have come together to make the image we know as Putin. Putin himself is just the tip of an iceberg.
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Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back.
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Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.
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There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.
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To be in conflict with the authorities is one thing. We Russian writers have got used to that. But to be in conflict with your own people - that is truly terrible.
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There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them.
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I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.
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I'm not a public person.
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My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.
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I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me to work, it was Soviet times, and journalism wasn't that free or interesting of a space. There was a lot of censorship; it was difficult.
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