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Svetlana Alexievich on Memorial Day

born 1948 Belarus

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War remains, as it always has been, one of the chief human mysteries.

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone—the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.

Voices from Chernobyl (2005)

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