Shostakovich called him a “genius” and composer Myaskovsky was a great friend. One may say, life was not fair to Lokshin. In 1948, during the anti-intellectualism purges in Soviet Russia, he lost his position at the Moscow Consernatory, and after Stalin’s death, he was accused by other intellectuals of being a KGB informant, a totally false accusation (it was a typical KGB tactic of smearing the reputation of person by providing untrue evidence). Still, despite having many champions of his music, many other, most notably the conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, refused to perform his works. He never returned to teaching and made most of his living by composing for film and theater.