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American graffiti artist Bask fled the communist regime of the former Czechoslovakia with his parents. One of his most memorable works is a public services sign with a hand grenade bearing this Orwellian directive: "Bask in your thought crime". All of this started a long time ago. Prehistoric man anticipated stencil and spraycan techniques by blowing coloured powder through hollow bones to make silhouettes of hands. The good citizens of Pompeii used their walls to paint porno pics and election slogans and the Nazis continued the propagandist trend by making antisemitic statements on buildings. A couple of decades later French students used the pochoir - stencil graffiti - to denounce oppression on the nearest wall.