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> [Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/real-people-speak-in-my-books-about-the-main-events-of-the-age-such/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

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> [“There is only one road here: the most thorough study of all the details of the Chernobyl disaster, since it is by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grigori-medvedev/there-is-only-one-road-here-the-most-thorough-study-of-all-the/)

[Grigori Medvedev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grigori-medvedev/)

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> [In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kinison/in-the-1990s-it-s-ok-to-do-comedy-about-the-chernobyl-disaster-or-the/)

[Sam Kinison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kinison/)

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> [Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/five-years-after-the-chernobyl-disaster-in-the-summer-of-1991-the/)

[Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/)

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> [Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carr/eighteen-years-since-the-chernobyl-disaster-is-it-just-me-surprized/)

[Jimmy Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carr/)

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