Pflaumbaum Publishing House has released a new translation of Svetlana Alexievich's book "Second-Hand Time". The concluding book of the famous cycle "Voices from Utopia" was translated by Katsiaryna Matsieuskaya, writes bellit.info.
The artistic and documentary history "Second-Hand Time" was first published in 2013, but both then and—even more clearly—today we see that the times of the "red man" did not end with the Soviet communist project. Now the "red man" is bombing Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odesa…
"Communism had a crazy plan," the author recounts, "to remake the 'old' human, the aged Adam. And it succeeded... perhaps the only thing that succeeded. Over seventy-plus years in the laboratory of Marxism-Leninism, a special human type was developed—homo soveticus. Some consider this a tragic figure, others call him a "sovok" (Soviet slob). It seems to me that I know this person, he is well known to me; I lived many years alongside him, shoulder to shoulder. He is me. These are my acquaintances, parents, friends."
The book will soon be available for purchase at Knihauka.com or Knygynas.biz, as well as in a number of other places (see the list from Pflaumbaum Publishing).
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