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Svetlana Alexievich
1948 • Belarusian • Journalist
60
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Showing 60 quotesI was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk.— Svetlana Alexievich
From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.— Svetlana Alexievich
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.— Svetlana Alexievich