Pragi

“To my mind, the hundreds of bio-burial sites left in the Zone are like pagan temples. Only, to which gods were these sacrifices being offered? The God of Science and Knowledge, or the God of Fire?”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“So, my love, have you understood my sadness? Pass it on to the people, though I might not be around by then. They'll find me in the earth. Under the roots.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“There were no saboteurs: just roetgens and curies.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“The police and soldiers stencilled some numbers. By one of the houses, somewhere in the street, they wrote, '70 curies', '60 curies'. We'd been living on our potatoes, our spuds, forever, and here they were saying we couldn't eat them! And they wouldn't let us have onions or carrots, either.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster