“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]

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Belarusian writer 1924–2003

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