I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.
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For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.
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My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.
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I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and Shoigu.
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Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror.
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Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in - but also, I should say, in many places outside - the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers' toil.
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