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Two other books, The Last Witnesses and Zinky Boys, examined the effects of war.

So when I read Svetlana Alexievich's Zinky Boys, I found myself

Zinky Boys is about Russian soldiers who fought in Afghanistan, supposedly to defend a socialist regime.

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (1991) spoke of a distant fight -- the nine-year Soviet war in Afghanistan -- that eroded Russian culture and humanity, while Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997) meditated on the global significance of the nuclear disaster.

In 1992, she wrote "Zinky Boys" about Soviet soldiers who fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s.