“When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the ones who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator ... It is easy for us all to imagine we are heroes when we are sitting in our kitchens, dreaming of distant suffering.” SufferingInjusticeHeroesAtrocities Book:Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad Source: Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad