I remember Grazhdanskaya Oborona being represented in my life by filthy punks who seemed to like the band's raw energy, old guys, whose prime happened during the Perestroika and hipsters who mentally masturbated their ironic feelings with otherworldly lyrics. So the band has always been a meme to me and a lot of people around me.

Recently I gave it a genuine try and holy shit, this is easily the best poetry about the looming Russian doom. The lyrics are downright scary sometimes and the images are very exact despite (or perhaps thanks to) unconventional language use. They describe my worst feelings of sadness, fear and fatality about Russia and it's just what I was looking for for the last several years.