Paul
Goble
Staunton, December 7 – The present-day
is “even more horrible” than were at least the last years of communist rule,
Belarusian Nobelist Svetlana Aleksiyevich says, because of something the artist
Ilya Kabakov has pointed to, the dispersal of the evil throughout the system
that had been concentrated in Soviet times.
In Kabakov’s words, Aleksiyevich
says, “In Soviet times, we struggled with the monster of communism. This was a
great beast, and we defeated him. But them we looked around and saw that we
still had to struggle with the rats” left behind (nv.ua/world/countries/belorusskaya-pisatelnica-aleksievich-o-sssr-i-segodnya-50057627.html).
That has created circumstances which
“even our literature did not warn us about” because “the rats are more horrible
than the monster since it is impossible to control them.” There are too many,
they are not linked together by a hated ideology, and they are beyond the
control of someone who could be attacked and defeated at one go, the writer
says.
For that reason, Alekseiyevich
argues, “today’s times are much more terrible” than those which came before.
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