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“Growing up under the Soviet regime, when, in order to survive under the authoritarian regime, ordinary Russians had to wear that drab look of obedience and self suppression, I had always wanted to escape from that total uniformity and find the way to express my vision of life in a different way, reflecting happier, funnier side of everyday existence. |
| My characters sometimes seem emotionally isolated,
keeping themselves to themselves, even when they are clustered
in groups, but they are not lacking emotions, they only express
them in their own way. They are content and happy, yet they do
not take themselves too seriously. Their self-sufficiency is
their freedom ” |
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