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" There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills. "

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" The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there. "

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" No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. "

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" Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature. "

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" I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia's great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me. "

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" Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper. "

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" We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again. "

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" I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time. "

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" 'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things. "

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