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I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk.

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I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

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Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

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The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me.

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Love is what brings us into this world.

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Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back.

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'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.

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From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.

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Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.

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A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: May 31st, 1948

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