Swetlana Alexijewitsch, who won the German Book Prize this year, said, when people talk about Stalin they should never forget it was sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, mothers and fathers, who carried out the brutal work.
They were all complicit in Stalin's butchery.They were all executioners.
She also said that our humanity is no thicker than the skin of an apple.
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