Solomon Volkov on Stalin and Shostakovich
On Stalin: "People underestimate the level of control that Stalin maintained. I once tried to count the number of people in the arts that Stalin controlled personally " it was close to one thousand. This was Stalin's habit." On Shostakovich: "I wouldn't dare to record him [in an interview]. He was mortally afraid of a […]
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