![]() ![]() That’s a very unsettling observation especially when the true picture of Soviet life emerged. People are constantly forced to choose between having freedom and having success and stability freedom with suffering or happiness without freedom. And freedom as well.” () “Everyone thought of themselves as a victim, never a willing accomplice.” () She best summarized the overall tone of the book in the following statement: She wrote, “People didn’t recognize their own slavery-they even liked being slaves.” () “Many greeted the truth as an enemy. ![]() In the opening chapter–titled “Remarks from an Accomplice”– Ms. Not surprisingly, both the author and her subjects expressed a hellish portrayal of life under communist rule. On the eve of the 1917 Revolution, Alexander Grin wrote, ‘And the future seems to have stopped standing it its proper place.’ Now, a hundred years later, the future is, once again, not where it ought to be. ![]() A very unsettling portrayal of both the Communist and post- glasnost era emerged.Ī line from Russian author Alexander Grin inspired the title. Reflections of anxiety, anger and disillusionment populated this troubling tome. As with her other books, she allowed those who lived the events to tell the story. In her latest work, 2015 Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich explored the lives of those who personally experienced the Soviet Union’s demise. ![]()
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