The Soviet man was a man who was always waiting—for rations, for orders, for the end.

苏联人是一个永远在等待的人——等待配给，等待命令，等待终结。

We live among myths, and sometimes we don’t even realize it.

我们生活在神话之中，有时甚至意识不到这一点。

The Soviet Union was a civilization of fear, where people lived in constant dread of the knock on the door at night.

苏联是一个恐惧的文明，人们生活在持续的对夜间敲门声的恐惧中。

"To write is to bear witness to the human condition."

写作就是见证人类的状况。

"History is not just about events, but about the emotions and thoughts of those who lived through them."

历史不仅仅是关于事件，而是关于那些经历过这些事件的人的情感和思想。