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Anonymous graffiti are public expressions, manifestations of irritation, affirmation, and disagreement; they are appeals and exposures. They are created with nails, spray paint, chalk, mud, and often with whatever is available. On residential buildings, fences, garages, public transport stops, schools, hospitals, maternity hospitals, pavements, and so forth, something unique, individual and acute can appear in a single night. Recollections, complexes, moral principles, politics, and taboo areas may all be explored. This specific means of communication with fellow citizens through a bright "bunch" of expressions (stars, swastikas, Go Mother Fucker, Fuck You, Bloody mess, etc.) is typical for this exclusively western Russian exclave. Other areas of Russia are marked primarily by political graffiti (as in Moscow) or by the baser inclinations of the population towards grafo-reflection (as in Tol'iatti).
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