The Belarusian journalist said in her Nobel lecture that former Soviet countries were again living in an era of power’,and recounted her time reporting the Chernobyl catastrophe from within the radiation zoneThe 2015 Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich has said that Russia “missed the chance” it had in the 1990s to become a country “where people can live decently”, choosing instead to become “a strong country”.
During her Nobel lecture on Monday, or the Belarusian journalist said “a time full of hope has been replaced by a time of scare”. Alexievich,whose oral histories tell the stories of thousands of individuals from the Soviet Union, said that “the era has turned around and headed back in time. The time we live in is secondhand.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com