Nobel lecture by Svetlana Alexievich

[Grigory]

I stand on this rostrum, no one Around me ... voices, hundreds of voices, they are always with me. Since I was young. I lived in the village. We children loved to play outside, but in the evening, like a magnet, gravitated to the benches on which was going in front of their houses or huts, as we say, tired woman. None of them had husbands, fathers, brothers, I don't remember men after the war in our village during the second world war in Belarus at the front and the partisans killed every fourth Belarusian. Our children's world after the war – it was a world of women. Most of all I remember that women did not talk about death, but about love. I told how saying goodbye on the last day with loved ones, waiting for them, still waiting. Already years have passed, and they waited: "let no hands, no feet back, I have it on hand to wear will." No hands ... no legs ... I Think I knew what love is ...

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My path to this podium was a length of nearly forty years. from person to person, from voice to voice. Can't say that it has always been my strength this way, many times I was shocked and scared man, experienced delight and disgust, wanted to forget what I heard back at the time when I was in the dark. To cry from joy that I saw a man beautiful, I do not just wanted.

I lived in a country where we are from childhood taught to die. Taught death. We were told that the man is to give himself, to burn, to sacrifice himself. Taught to love a man with a gun. If I grew up in another country, I would not be able to walk this path. Evil relentlessly, it is necessary to have the inoculation. But we grew up among the executioners and the victims. May our parents lived in fear and all we were told, and often told nothing, but the very air of our lives was poisoned. Evil was spying on us.

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Twenty years ago we had the red Empire with curses and with tears. Today we can look at recent history on historical experience. This is important because the debate about socialism not cease till now. A new generation has grown, which has a different picture of the world, but many young people again, read Marx and Lenin. In Russian cities open the museums Stalin, put him monuments.

The "red" of the Empire, and "red" people left. Continues.

My father, he died recently, was a believing Communist. Kept his party card. I can never say the word "scoop", then I'd have to call his father, "family", who you people. Friends. They comes from socialism. Many of them are idealists. Romantics. Today they called-другому – romance of slavery. The slaves of utopia. I think all of them could live another life, but lived Soviet. Why? The answer to this question I've been looking for – a huge breadth of the country, which recently was called the USSR, has recorded thousands of tapes. That was socialism and it was just our life. Bit by bit, bit by bit I collected the history of "home", "inner" of socialism. How he lived in the human soul. I was attracted to this little space – man ... one man. There are actually occurs all.

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What happened to us when the Empire collapsed? Before the world was divided: the executioners and the victims of the GULAG, brothers and sisters – a war that the electorate is technology, the modern world. Before our world was still divided into those who sat and who planted, today the division between Slavophiles and westernisers, ... -предателей and patriots. And for those who can buy and who cannot buy. Last, I would say, the most brutal test after socialism, because recently all were equal. "Red" man was not able to enter the realm of freedom, which was a dream in the kitchen. Russia shared without him, he was left with nothing. Humiliated and robbed. Aggressive and dangerous.

What I heard when I went to Russia ...

– Modernization is possible by sharashkas and executions.

– Russian people like and doesn't want to be rich, even afraid. What does he want? And he always wants to-то else got rich. Richer than he is.

– An honest man we will not find, and the saints there.

– Not whipped generations don't we wait for; Russian people do not understand the freedom he needs and the Cossack whip.

– Two top Russian words: war and prison. Stole, walked in, sat down ... went out and sat down again ...

– Russian life must be evil, worthless, then the soul rises, she realizes that not belong to this world ... the dirtier and bloodier, the more space for her ...

– For this new revolution has neither the power nor any-то madness. Courage is not. Russian needs this idea to the creeps ...

– So our life and loose – between the mess and the barracks. Communism is not dead, the corpse is alive.

Take the liberty to say that we missed the chance we had in 90-ые years. To the question: what should be the country is strong or decent, where people are a good place to live, chose the first – strong. Now is again the time force. The Russians are fighting Ukrainians. With the brothers. My father is Belarus, the mother is Ukrainian. And so many. Russian planes are bombing Syria ...



The time of hope has replaced the fear. Time turned back ... the second Time-хэнд ...

Now I'm not sure I learned the history of the "red" man ...

I have three homes – my Belarusian land, my father's homeland, where I've lived my whole life, Ukraine, the birthplace of my mother, where I was born, and the great Russian culture, without which I cannot imagine. They told me all the roads. But it is difficult nowadays to talk about love.

[Grigory]

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