I just found out Dmitri Shostakovich died.
Like Mozart, he died too old
Sources tell me Dmitri is stable.Please God
>>130189840But not by Stalin's hand and that's fucking saying something.
>>13018984022 years after the boss.
>>130190027The steel man could've crushed him like a bug with no consequences whatsoever if he had wanted to (he didn't, because Stalin liked him and his propagandist works like the 7th symphony). Always found it funny how artists that earned Stalin's favor, like Shostakovich or Bulgakov, are retrospectively thought of as valiant fighters against the Soviet regime even though they produced work for the state that Stalin approved of
>>130190807We got Richard Taruskin posting here.
>>130190807Nobody said that a person not killed by Stalin was a valiant fighter. The point is, Stalin wantonly and spastically murdered everyone, even his most subservient lackeys. There was no logic to his purges at all. That's why it's noteworthy that Shostakovich survived Stalinism, particularly considering how badly Stalin was triggered by Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
>>130191482He was executing counter-revolutionaries, you revisionist scumbag.
>>130191482>Stalin wantonly and spastically murdered everyone>Stalin was triggered by Lady Macbeth of MtsenskDo you not see any contradiction between these two statements, typed seconds apart? If Stalin really murdered anyone who rankled him for a moment, Shostakovitch would've been in a potter's grave or locked away until the Khrushchev thaw. On the contrary, Stalin often banned certain productions by artists he liked, but let them live and try again. Like Shostakovitch with his Lady Macbeth or Bulgakov (whom I mentioned earlier) with his Pontius Pilate.
