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Vasíl Uładzímiravič Býkaŭ was a prolific author of novels and novellas about World War II and a significant figure in soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought. His work earned him endorsements for the Nobel Prize nomination from, among others, Nobel Prize laureates Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. June 1924 – 22. June 2003
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Famous Vasil Bykaŭ Quotes

“Suffering makes us human. A person without suffering is just grass.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

Васіль Быкаў. Трэцяя ракета http://rv-blr.com/literature/charter/11223 // rv-blr.com (in Belarusian)

“Bureaucracy and culture are incompatible. Bureaucracy needs power, and culture is not wanted by it.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

1989. Source: [Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power: The Post-Stalin Era, Vladimir Shlapentokh, 2014, 22, 9781400861132, Princeton University Press]

“The pro-imperial dictatorship of Lukashenka keeps the direction of unification with Russia, destroying the national culture and the Belarusian language.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

Vasil Bykau, “ЁН ПРЫЕХАЎ, САМ ПАМЁР, УСЁ СПАКОЙНА…” АПОШНІЯ ТЫДНІ ВАСІЛЯ БЫКАВА https://www.svaboda.org/amp/24853764.html // svaboda.org<br>(in Belarusian)

“Publishers have no tight to saturate the book market with works which have no demand, which do not get sold. It would be unnatural, both economically and also, probably, morally.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

'Trava posle nas', Ogonek, 19 (1987). [The Demise of Marxism-Leninism in Russia, A. Brown, 2004, 100, 9780230554405, Springer]

“The Communist-Fascists, who are managers of the press, remove unwanted editors and monopolize the printing base, as it is widely practiced today in Belarus.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

“Ён Прыехаў, Сам Памёр, Усё Спакойна…” Апошнія Тыдні Васіля Быкава https://www.svaboda.org/amp/24853764.html // svaboda.org<br>(in Belarusian)

“The nationalism of a great nation inevitably degenerates into chauvinism and imperialism. The nationalism of a small nation is aimed primarily at the survival of the nation among others.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

Правілы жыцця Васіля Быкава http://belsat.eu/news/20412/ // belsat.eu (in Belarusian)

Vasil Bykaŭ Quotes

“In a society where every third person is a communist and every second person is an informer, it is difficult to expect to win by democratic means.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

about Belarusian society <br class="br"> Вялікія словы на вялікай мове http://dumki.org/quote/61 // dumki.org (in Belarusian)

“After making public the gruesome discoveries made at the wasteland near Minsk, dozens of reports appeared in the press about similar mass graves uncovered in all regional centres of the Republic and many lesser towns. Who lies in these graves, who were the people shot in all those years, and - most importantly - who were the murderers? We have no answer yet to these questions, and one gets an impression that there are powerful forces not interested at all in such answers ever being given.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

'Zhazhda peremen' ['Thirst for Change'], Pravda, 24 November 1989, p.4. Source: [Modernity and Ambivalence, Zygmunt Bauman, 68, 2013, John Wiley & Sons, 9780745638119]

“I cannot write in Minsk. Firstly, I have a cold apartment. I will die there with my sick lungs soon. Because the presidential decree introduced the maximum temperature in Minsk… He [Lukashenka] does not need Bykau. He has a close-knit and strong cohort of own writers, who write his biographies. They write about him, describe his life. And it's enough for Lukashenka. He does not perceive anything else. The things that Lukashenko is doing are aimed at the complete elimination of the sovereignty of Belarus. He completely enslaves the people.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

“Ён Прыехаў, Сам Памёр, Усё Спакойна…” Апошнія Тыдні Васіля Быкава https://www.svaboda.org/amp/24853764.html // svaboda.org<br>(in Belarusian)

“The signing of the Union Treaty is not just sad. This is the crime of the century. This, of course, is the genocide of the Belarusian nation. This is the end of Belarusian history.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

“Ён Прыехаў, Сам Памёр, Усё Спакойна…” Апошнія Тыдні Васіля Быкава https://www.svaboda.org/amp/24853764.html // svaboda.org<br>(in Belarusian)

“Today he (Lukashenka) won by the hands of "gorillas" in black masks. Already it is clear that there will be no Parliament in Belarus, no democratic election. The remains of a free press will disappear. A presidential Junta will govern the country… Well, we can congratulate Belarusians on the previous elections. Worse cannot be done. For ourselves, for society and for future generations.”

Vasil Bykaŭ

about results of Belarusian presidential election, 1994 <br class="br"> “Ён Прыехаў, Сам Памёр, Усё Спакойна…” Апошнія Тыдні Васіля Быкава https://www.svaboda.org/amp/24853764.html // svaboda.org<br>(in Belarusian)

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