Russian propagandists: Svetlana Alexievich is American project

A campaign against the Belarusian writer has been launched in Russia.

An inflammatory and insulting article about Svetlana Alexievich was published on Free Press (Svobodnaya Pressa), the website edited by Zakhar Prilepin.

The author, Vladimir Bondarenka, accuses the writer of “travelling in Europe, organising rallies against Vladimir Putin and calling on a war with Russia”. “She dreams to be nominated for the Nobel Prize again,” the Russian propagandist is convinced. “She promotes hatred in European society against everything Russian, not against a particular undesired ruler.”

“She breathe Belarusian air, but writes about Russia and the Russian people with hatred. Why?” the author of the Russian site wonders and answers: “Perhaps, NATO owners explained to her that she can count on the Nobel Prize only if she lives there, in Belarus. And she must write about Russia, which Alexievich often visits.”

The author calls Svetlana Alexievich a second-rate writer: “In fact, she writes documentary essays on a chosen topic rather than prose. She writes about Afghanistan (Zinky Boys) and interviews the guys who fought there. She writes about women in war (The Unwomanly Face of the Wars, about the Chernobyl disaster (Chernobyl Prayer), about perestroika (Second Hand Time). With her each book Alexievich is becoming more and more hostile towards Russia and the people of Russia.”

Along with hatred against the people of Russian Alexievich “promotes hatred against the Orthodox Church, adding dirty words either about Patriarch Kirill or the Russian Church as a whole in all her today's conversations and interviews.”

The columnist of Free Press worries about the Nobel Prize and asks not to give it to the Belarusian writer: “If the American project of Alexievich is fulfilled, it will cover the Nobel Prize with shame once and for all. Giving the prize to the person who has clearly racial views and insults one of the greatest nations in the world means to destroy the prize.”

The author even more worries about the fact that Alexievich's books are published in Russia.

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