Tikhon Khrennikov

So this probably lies way out of this blog's normal subject matter, but oh well. I noticed Russian composer's Tikhon Khrennikov's obituary in the Times yesterday. I was shocked he was still alive. His main claim to fame today is that when Stalin needed a composer to ride herd over his fellows, Khrennikov took the job and most famously put his knife squarely in the middle of Dmitri Shostakovich's back. (I recommend Shostokovich's autobiography Testimony for a sense of what he went through; the man was lucky to survive). Khrennikov is a bit like the Russian version of American artists who named names to HUAC. So I should hold him in complete contempt, right? But here's the thing-----I love Khrennikov's music.
This performance of The Song of Drunken People is the only clip of his work I was able to find.