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On January 26, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was performed at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow with Stalin secretly watching from a box. The next day, Pravda published an editorial titled "Chaos Instead of Music," reportedly written by Stalin, criticizing the opera. This marked the beginning of a tense struggle between Shostakovich and Stalin, pitting creative freedom against totalitarian control, and threatening the composer’s career.
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