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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Today many people, especially the young, think it was only America that defeated Hitler. Little is known about the price the Soviet people paid for the victory – twenty million human lives in four years.”

151. “Today many people, especially the young, think it was only America that defeated Hitler. Little is known about the price the Soviet people paid for the victory – twenty million human lives in four years.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I used to think that if I told someone about this, afterward I would have to run away from that person and never see them again.”

152. “I used to think that if I told someone about this, afterward I would have to run away from that person and never see them again.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Son demasiados los casos en que las palabras nos alejaron de la verdad.”

153. “Son demasiados los casos en que las palabras nos alejaron de la verdad.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “People who’ve been through that kind of humiliation together, or who’ve seen what people can be like, at the bottom, run from one another. There’s something I felt in Chernobyl, something I understood that I don’t really want to talk about. About the fact, for example, that all our humanistic ideas are relative. In an extreme situation, people don’t behave the way you read about in books. Sooner the other way around. People aren’t heroes.“ – Sergei Gurin.”

154. “People who’ve been through that kind of humiliation together, or who’ve seen what people can be like, at the bottom, run from one another. There’s something I felt in Chernobyl, something I understood that I don’t really want to talk about. About the fact, for example, that all our humanistic ideas are relative. In an extreme situation, people don’t behave the way you read about in books. Sooner the other way around. People aren’t heroes.“ – Sergei Gurin.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “When you’re part of a mob, the mob is a monster. A person in a mob is nothing like the person you sit and chat with in the kitchen. Drinking.”

155. “When you’re part of a mob, the mob is a monster. A person in a mob is nothing like the person you sit and chat with in the kitchen. Drinking.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I accepted the official line so completely that even now, after all I’ve read and heard, I still have a minute hope that our lives weren’t entirely wasted. It’s the self-preservation instinct at work.”

156. “I accepted the official line so completely that even now, after all I’ve read and heard, I still have a minute hope that our lives weren’t entirely wasted. It’s the self-preservation instinct at work.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “How much can we value human life when we know that not long ago people had died by the millions? We’re full of hatred and superstitions. All of us come from the land of the gulag and harrowing war.”

157. “How much can we value human life when we know that not long ago people had died by the millions? We’re full of hatred and superstitions. All of us come from the land of the gulag and harrowing war.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Everyone found a justification for themselves, an explanation. I experimented on myself. And basically I found out that the frightening things in life happen quietly and naturally. Zoya.”

158. “Everyone found a justification for themselves, an explanation. I experimented on myself. And basically I found out that the frightening things in life happen quietly and naturally. Zoya.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Russian novels don’t teach you how to become successful.”

159. “Russian novels don’t teach you how to become successful.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Any little knot, that was already a wound on him. I clipped my nails down till they bled so I wouldn’t accidentally cut him. None of the nurses could approach him; if they needed anything they’d call me. And.”

160. “Any little knot, that was already a wound on him. I clipped my nails down till they bled so I wouldn’t accidentally cut him. None of the nurses could approach him; if they needed anything they’d call me. And.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “If you don’t play, you lose. There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. ‘Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.’”

161. “If you don’t play, you lose. There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. ‘Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.’”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “We share a communist collective memory. We’re neighbors in memory.”

162. “We share a communist collective memory. We’re neighbors in memory.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Do you know how beautiful a morning at war can be? Before combat... You look and you know: this may be your last. The earth is so beautiful... And the air... And the dear sun...”

163. “Do you know how beautiful a morning at war can be? Before combat... You look and you know: this may be your last. The earth is so beautiful... And the air... And the dear sun...”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Russian can’t convince another Russian of anything without obscenities. I.”

164. “Russian can’t convince another Russian of anything without obscenities. I.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Where are we going to get tens of thousands of dollars if my husband makes 120 dollars a month? One professor told us quietly: “With her pathologies, your child is of great interest to science. You should write to hospitals in other countries. They should be interested.”

165. “Where are we going to get tens of thousands of dollars if my husband makes 120 dollars a month? One professor told us quietly: “With her pathologies, your child is of great interest to science. You should write to hospitals in other countries. They should be interested.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I’m afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.”

166. “I’m afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I guess that’s how you experience your own death, from a distance.”

167. “I guess that’s how you experience your own death, from a distance.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

168. “We’d go into battle with one riffle for every four men. When they kill the first one, the second one grabs the riffle, after the second one, the next one. Meanwhile, the germans all had brand-new machine guns.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “The soul will fly home of its own accord, but shipping a coffin is pretty expensive.”

169. “The soul will fly home of its own accord, but shipping a coffin is pretty expensive.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “You’re going to say that you’re a tractor specialist,” I said to Slyunkov, he’d been a director of a tractor factory, “and that you didn’t understand what radiation could do, but I’m a physicist, I know what the consequences are.” But from his point of view, what was this? Some professor, a bunch of physicists, were going to tell the Central Committee what to do? No, they weren’t a gang of criminals. It was more like a conspiracy of ignorance and obedience.”

170. “You’re going to say that you’re a tractor specialist,” I said to Slyunkov, he’d been a director of a tractor factory, “and that you didn’t understand what radiation could do, but I’m a physicist, I know what the consequences are.” But from his point of view, what was this? Some professor, a bunch of physicists, were going to tell the Central Committee what to do? No, they weren’t a gang of criminals. It was more like a conspiracy of ignorance and obedience.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Once a week, whoever had really excelled at dirt-digging was presented with a certificate of merit in front of all of us, on parade. Top Radioactive Earth-Shoveller of the USSR. How mad was that?”

171. “Once a week, whoever had really excelled at dirt-digging was presented with a certificate of merit in front of all of us, on parade. Top Radioactive Earth-Shoveller of the USSR. How mad was that?”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Mankind is good, but the people are mean. Some.”

172. “Mankind is good, but the people are mean. Some.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.”

173. “We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “But I’m talking about something else – I think about it a lot. At the cemetery. Some people pray loudly, others quietly. And some people say: ‘Open up, yellow sand. Open up, dark night.’ The forest might do it, but the sand never will. I’ll ask gently: ‘Ivan. Ivan, how should I live?’ But he doesn’t answer me anything, one way or the other.”

174. “But I’m talking about something else – I think about it a lot. At the cemetery. Some people pray loudly, others quietly. And some people say: ‘Open up, yellow sand. Open up, dark night.’ The forest might do it, but the sand never will. I’ll ask gently: ‘Ivan. Ivan, how should I live?’ But he doesn’t answer me anything, one way or the other.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “The most important thing is spiritual labor... Books... You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can’t live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”

175. “The most important thing is spiritual labor... Books... You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can’t live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “You’re young. Why are you doing this? That’s not a person anymore, that’s a nuclear reactor. You’ll just burn together.” I was like a dog, running after them. I’d stand for hours at their doors, begging and pleading. And then they’d say: “All right! The hell with you! You’re not normal!”

176. “You’re young. Why are you doing this? That’s not a person anymore, that’s a nuclear reactor. You’ll just burn together.” I was like a dog, running after them. I’d stand for hours at their doors, begging and pleading. And then they’d say: “All right! The hell with you! You’re not normal!”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.”

177. “Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I’m a history teacher... within my memory the history textbook has been rewritten three times. I taught children with three different textbooks... Ask us while we’re alive. Don’t rewrite afterward without us. Ask...”

178. “I’m a history teacher... within my memory the history textbook has been rewritten three times. I taught children with three different textbooks... Ask us while we’re alive. Don’t rewrite afterward without us. Ask...”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I’ve forgotten everything... even love... but I still remember the war...”

179. “I’ve forgotten everything... even love... but I still remember the war...”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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