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- Fay, Laurel E. (2000). Shostakovich: A Life. Oxford University Press US. p. 55. ISBN 0195182510.
| I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
— Dmitri Shostakovich, January 14, 1930
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