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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.

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— Dmitri Shostakovich, talking about life living in the USSR

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Fay, Laure E. (2000). Shostakovich: A Life. Oxford University Press. p. 462. ISBN 0195182510.