# Tikhon Khrennikov is Dead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tikhon-khrennikov-is-dead/415892>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 17, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tikhon-khrennikov-is-dead/415892 "2007-08-17T03:36:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tikhon-khrennikov-is-dead/415892/1 "2007-08-17T03:36:17Z")

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I think I speak for all Americans when I say, Who?

He was a Soviet composer and head of the composer’s union. He was Stalin’s boy and helped keep music along strictly Soviet lines. So he was somewhat interesting.

But look at this, [here](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/08/17/db1701.xml) is the obit from the Daily Telegraph. Note the words “despotic,” “terrorized,” and “cravenly.”

Now look over [here](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/arts/music/15khrennikov.html?ref=obituaries) at the obit in the New York Times. Note the words “prolific,” “official Soviet antagonist,” and “able to survive in the perilous currents of Soviet politics.”

It is enough to make you think the Times is leaning over backwards (and to the left) to excuse Khrennikov’s life. (Or of course that the Telegraph is leaning to the right.) In any case, an interesting case of two distinct points of view.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tikhon-khrennikov-is-dead/415892/2 "2007-08-17T06:30:56Z")

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Meanwhile, here at the SDMB, we’re all thinking, “damn, there’s six easy points I missed.”

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tikhon-khrennikov-is-dead/415892/3 "2007-08-17T07:43:05Z")

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Well, yeah, that goes without saying.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tikhon-khrennikov-is-dead/415892/4 "2007-08-17T11:10:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Little Nemo]  
Meanwhile, here at the SDMB, we’re all thinking, “damn, there’s six easy points I missed.”  
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But **Rachm Qoch** got them, didn’t he? 😃

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tikhon-khrennikov-is-dead/415892/5 "2007-08-17T12:00:23Z")

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Ya’ can prove nothing **Rachm Qoch** has never even been indicted, let alone convicted.