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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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October 6, 2015
A common Russian punk concert "You can safely call yourself a punk without being an anarchist, and just be 'anti-social,' without adhering to any particular ideas, just riding the nihilistic wave of it all. What does it mean to be anti-social in our time? It's either renting your place and using the money to travel abroad, running off the the forest, to somewhere in Siberia, and building yourself a hut, or something. Or in modern society you can just fucking consume, steal, drink, and be on your own. Most people choose the second route. It's a lot simpler",- Sanya said
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