Дмитрий Шостакович: развращение нации, лифт, затыкание ртов и идеологически верная музыка.

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich is a Soviet composer living under Stalin and Khrushchev. Some considered him the mouthpiece of Soviet propaganda in the West, while hating the Soviet totalitarian system. All his life he shut his own mouth, and divided his compositional work into 2 categories: for the soul and for the party. The video is also about the article "Muddle instead of music" about his opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District", Maxim Shostakovich, the composer's son, N. Khrushchev, Sofia Gubaidulina, as well as Sergei Dovlatov and his "Notebooks".