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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.
Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich
Born: May 31, 1948

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