Where did Svetlana Alexievich spend her childhood?
Belarus
Ukraine
Russia
Poland
Answer
Svetlana Alexievich spent her childhood in Belarus, which was part of the Soviet Union at the time. She was born in 1948 in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, which is now in Ukraine. Alexievich's father was a Belarusian soldier and her mother was a Ukrainian teacher. Alexievich's family moved to Belarus when she was a child, and she grew up in the city of Minsk.
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