Quotes by : Svetlana Alexievich

Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren.....

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

When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time

Why didn't we put Stalin on trial? I'll tell you why...In order to condemn Stalin, you'd have to condemn....

It's certainly true that Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off,....

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the....

Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well.

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that....

Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't....