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Alexievich calls them her guides, narrators, interlocutors. The common people who tell her their stories. The stories of the heroes of the Great War (WWII), the prisoners, those in forced labor camps, the mothers, the soldiers of the Afghan War, the Chechen War, the demonstrators, those who grew up since perestroika, those who grew up in the USSR and now live in Russia, or are undocumented emigrants to Russia or who live in the ...more
Alexievich calls them her guides, narrators, interlocutors. The common people who tell her their stories. The stories of the heroes of the Great War (WWII), the prisoners, those in forced labor camps, the mothers, the soldiers of the Afghan War, the Chechen War, the demonstrators, those who grew up since perestroika, those who grew up in the USSR and now live in Russia, or are undocumented emigrants to Russia or who live in the ...more
Come anche il libro su Chernobyl, ho impiegato parecchio tempo per finire questo volume di interviste a persone comuni che sono vissute attraverso il passaggio dall'Unione Sovietica all'attuale confederazione. La maggior parte delle conversazioni riportate mostra come, almeno il 90% della popolazione non ha tratto, e duole dirlo, nessun tipo di beneficio dalla caduta del comunismo, se non una maggior libertá di parola, sempre a patto che non vivano in Cecenia, Bielorussia o Nagorno Karabakh, chi
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