20th Century
Five Seconds of Silence in a Moscow Theater
A piano accompanist's split-second hesitation during a 1943 concert may have saved Stalin from assassination.
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Download on the App StoreSoviet UnionWorld War IIClassical MusicAssassination PlotStalin EraCultural ResistanceMoscow1943David OistrakhMaria YudinaNKVDOrthodox ChristianityMozart
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