Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian writer and journalist known for her oral history works that explore the Soviet and post-Soviet experience.

"I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they're safer than samovars. They're like stars and we'll 'light' the whole earth with them."

Svetlana Alexievich