In a lecture titled “On the Battle Lost,” the impact of this event is described by a “Second Voice” who asks the audience, “Can you kill with love?” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this event. In the prologue of a book about this event, “A Solitary Human Voice” says “I don’t know what I should talk about—about death or about love? Or are they the same? Which one should I talk about?”
ANSWER: Chernobyl disaster [or Chornobyl’s’ka katastrofa or Chernobyl’skaya katastrofa or Charnobyl’skaya katastrofa; accept Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster or Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future or Chernobyl’skaya molitva]
[10e] This Belarusian journalist wrote Voices from Chernobyl and further discussed the Chernobyl disaster’s impact on the end of the Soviet Union in her speech accepting the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.
ANSWER: Svetlana Alexievich [or Svetlana Aleksandrovna Aleksiyevich or Svyatlana Alyaksandrawna Aleksiyevich or Svitlana Oleksandrivna Aleksiyevich]
[10m] At the end of her speech, Alexievich noted how Russia is moving backwards, describing “the time we live in” with this term. The title of a 2013 oral history of the end of the Soviet Union by Alexievich describes “time” with this word.
ANSWER: secondhand [accept Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets or Vremya sekond khend]
<AMS, European Literature>