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" We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is. "

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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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" 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. "

" Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things. "

" For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom. "

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

" I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion. "

" I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. "

" 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. "

" Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave. "

" Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in - but also, I should say, in many places outside - the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers' toil. "

" I love how humans talk. "

" 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. "

" I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. "

" I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being. "

" We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together. "

" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "

" I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside. "

" My wish is to humanize history. "

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" It's very important to listen when someone is speaking up. I always keep my ear to the ground. "

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" In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively. "

" A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive. "

" My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts. "

" I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature. "

" I couldn't get published for three years. Then the times changed: glasnost, perestroika. So, for three years, I wasn't allowed to publish 'The Unwomanly Face of War,' but then it changed. "

" All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history. "

" I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women. "

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" Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us. "

" There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters. "