texts: Otis!!  Shostakovich identified with the Jew.  He felt persecuted, hunted, crushed under the thumb of Stalinist imperialism. </s> <s> Not to mention Andrew Zhdanov... Otis, come!! </s> <s> Andre Zhdanov?  How the hell do you know about Andre Zhdanov?
labels: Who doesn't know about the infamous composer's conference of 1948 where Zhdanov persecuted the leaders of Soviet Music - Shostakovich, Prokofieve, and Myaskovsky.