Children Of The Anxious Times
Punks - this word means so much for a russian heart… The most reckles informal movement of the last decade - one could always pick them out in the crowd of other “hippie-rockers” by a bright irokez and a striking number of ear-rings in different places. Frightful customs were asociated with the punks, eating the products of one’s own vital activity during the initiation ceremony was the best-known one. Punk-music of the 80-s was foreboding Apocalypse, and the songs’ texts seemed to be an absolute nonsense. But whatever they were spoken about and whatever frightful rumours they were spread about, on the basis of nihilism russian punks, and first of all legendary “Grajdanskaya Oborona”, managed to create their own world and culture, deserving if not respect, study at least. The new generation of irokez bearers even don’t dream about it… In the new millennium the punk culture has noticeably given up its positions. The word punk is more and more associated with an unprincipled rabble, who’s happiness is in drinking, smoking, doping… But today we’ll meet, perhaps, the last of the punk Mohicans, the bearers of the unique underground life philosophy, which will soon become history. Besides we’ll find out if they like living in the historic motherland, surrounded by the admirers of Shlomo Artsi and Sarid Hadad…