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" We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs. "
Svetlana Alexievich
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" You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together. "
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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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" Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things. "
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" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "
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" Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror. "
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" Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone. "
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