![]() ![]() They had made the USSR into one of two world powers (…). Almost all agree in considering Gorbachev a traitor, almost all drink vodka happily and almost all repeat the same lamentation: Homeland, the (Soviet) Empire and the Great Leader (Stalin) have been lost. It is difficult to extract statistical conclusions from such interviews, but they help in knowing society and what people think. She interviews people who have suffered the event, whether sorrowfully or joyfully. In her own words, “I have always been attracted by this mini-space occupied by the single human being… for in truth that is where everything takes place” far from the official media, history books or official reports. She has undertaken an analysis of the Soviet collapse from the point of view of the person. Aleksiévich, 2015 Nobel Prize, is a journalist-cum-writer, non-fiction novelist, Bielorussian. When major political changes take place, such as the collapse of the Soviet Union, no stereotypes or short explanations are enough to explain the event. ![]()
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