Alexiévich sees Russia as a country closed to freedom

Thousands of voices with them anecdotes, complaints and stories accompanied  Svetlana Alexiévich yesterday with her speech of acceptation of the Nobel Prize in Literature  in Stokholm, that she will receive next thursday.  Voices accompanied her to recount  her childhood in the country until her story today at the hands of the Soviet Union. A present about Russia that the journalist and writer yelled with a solid, belligerent, quotes lended by a lot of testimonies: The journalist and writer yelled her feelings in a solid, belligerent tone, and these were accompanied by many testomonies:

The Russians don't understand about freedom.
The most important words in Russia are 'War' and 'Jail'.
Nobody has energy to the new revolution.
Our life is between chaos and barracks.
The comunism is not dead, his corpse is still alive.

With these opinions, Alexiévich described the actual moment as a "time of second hand". A moment of hope that has been replaced with 'the moment of fear' and now "is hard to speak of love".

With this dark horizon, Alexiévich closed her speech in the language that she writes: Russian. Her voice brought memories of  her childhood and finished with many  testimonies from her homeland. In the middle, the testionies of the World War II and the Chernobyl massacre, and she finished with the mea culpa: We lost the opportunity that we had in the 90's. The question now is: what kind of country would we have? A strong country or a country where we could live freely? We chose the first one. Once  again, we are in a power era.