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CPOY 70 Documentary Award of Excellence: On the Verge

Modern punks are young people of my generation born during Perestroika. They absorbed the uncertainty and hopelessness of the epoch, when the old ideology collapsed, and the new one has not been formed yet. Many of them experienced violence in childhood, social pressure, suffered from alcohol and drug addiction of their parents. But unlike the others, they are not silent, they declare about their discontent openly, exposing the problems of modern society.

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Oliver (23 years old) after punk concert "I grew up in a small Siberian town, where there was hardly any punk music at all. The core of the punk community in those days was made up of teenagers and students who'd dropped out of society and didn't fully understand why everything was happening or what they should be doing. Their protest was an act against school and against their families. And I gotta tell you: it was pretty fucking awesome for its time, and I was the same way. But if you look at it now, it's all pretty laughable: a bunch of skinny-ass school kids screaming about something, getting wasted, getting high on cough syrup, and then barely being able to walk. We were all a bunch of fake-ass punks", - Oliver said
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