Svetlana Alexievich: "It's fascism that I see in Putin's Russia"

By Ezio Mauro (La Repubblica)

Russian-language writer Svetlana Alexandrovna, a Belarusian father and Ukrainian mother, grew up Soviet.

How does she experience today the conflict between these four natures, which have gone to war against each other?

When I received the Nobel Prize, I said that I had two homes, or rather three: Belarus, Ukraine, and Russian culture.

But that was another time, the greatness of Russian culture watered us, we were under its spell, but today it seems to belong to another world.

We must ask ourselves, and ask the entire Russian elite, why the culture of the country has become powerless, why it is not able to help us in this tragic situation, why we can no longer s leave it to the word of culture, that we don't listen to it, and that we only listen to television.

What happened ?

I ask myself the question every day.

As you know, we always talk about the “mysterious…

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