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In the light of what might be called COMPOSERS VARIOUSLY SLATED above...
... it seemed worth pointing out that back in the Imperial Russian days of yore, composers such as Tchaikovsky (who, just like Shostakovich, didn't hesitate at putting his ability at the service of the State) didn't just get their wrists slapped...
That's not for me to answer.
Anyway, it was not with anything of the kind in mind that I wrote as I did in my first response here, my motivation on the contrary being that Shchedrin's attempts to rehabilitate a composer who was once in an official position of power and who even at the age of around 90 continued to defend what have been widely described as some of the less favourable of his actions vis-à-vis certain of his compatriots ring rather hollow if for no better reason than that TK was a minor figure among 20th century Russian composers and the entire exercise risks descending into special pleading.