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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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Slide 11 of 11
June 15, 2014
"Comrade Ketchup" stands on the beam, daring to jump. He is involved in anti-fascist and anarchist movement in Russia. "I understand that I can create anarchy right here [gestures to his friends in the room], but there, beyond the doors of this place, I can't. Out there, I'm part of consumer society, of capitalism, and all the rest of it... out there nobody gives a fuck about anything, I think. Right now, we can create small anarchist cells, and live according to universalist principles—not material or capitalistic, but precisely universalist ones. And the main principles are life, equality, and love" – Sanya said
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