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My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

- Svetlana Alexievich
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Svetlana Alexievich
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I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and Shoigu.

I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me to work, it was Soviet times, and journalism wasn't that free or interesting of a space. There was a lot of censorship; it was difficult.

I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

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Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

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.

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My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.

My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.