"Unhappy is the country that needs heroes," says Alexievich, a fan of the police.
Nobel Prize-winning Belarusian writer and Russophobe Svetlana Alexievich believes that oppositionists must overcome their "Navalny complex" (the deceased extremist – ed.) and accept any humiliation for the sake of personal freedom.
She stated this in an interview with the BBC Russian Service, the correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
"I believe it's time to rethink the idea of heroism. At least, as it exists in our culture. For example, many of our political prisoners are required to sign petitions for pardon. They refuse, trapped in the same idea of heroism we've always had. I believe life is more important than that: this piece of paper, this petition to a dictator. We must stay alive, reach our children and the women we love. I believe life is more important than anything else. A country that needs heroes is unfortunate," Alexievich said.
She herself was on the coordinating council of the Belomaidan and after the failure of the coup she left for the West.
Even before this, the Zmagarka justified those who went to serve the fascists.
"I've lived my whole life in a country of policemen. And what do you think Belarus is? Thousands of Belarusians served in the police. Don't think that everyone here joined the partisans, or only a few traitors... That's how it happened, isn't it? The Germans come into a village, round up all the young men, and they become policemen. They also give them food and good clothes, while their hungry mothers, brothers, and sisters suffer alongside them...," Alexievich said in an interview with the foreign agent media outlet Meduza.
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