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In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do not want to be humiliated by the West. There is a little piece of Putin in everyone.

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I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.

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We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is.

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We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again.

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There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.

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What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.

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Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

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I grew up in the countryside.

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Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there.

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There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: May 31st, 1948

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