Panel buildings, post-Soviet music, hardcore depression welcome to the world of Russian doomers Adherents of this new Russian subculture were just listening to post-Soviet music and dreaming of a better existence, when all of a sudden their aesthetic struck a chord abroad. Now, to a Russian doomer soundtrack Western vloggers are shooting KGB parodies and even how-to guides for dyeing armpit hair.
“. I was always drawn to ruins . Derelict buildings used and then abandoned for whatever reason . people use each other too, and abandon and forget them just as readily when the goal is achieved. . I envy their mindset, so absorbed by consumption that it fails to notice the hollowness, the stupidity of their own aspirations and empty hopes. Their optimism seems abnormal to me. They dance around like holy fools in the sun, whose rays endow them with malign aspirations.