Once he completed the score, Shostakovich was apparently uncertain how to proceed. His new symphony did not emulate the style of Nikolai Myaskovsky's socialist realist Sixteenth Symphony, "The Aviators", or Vissarion Shebalin's song-symphony "The Heroes of Perekop", and contained nothing placatory at all in it, having been conceived before the "Pravda" attacks. Showing the new symphony to friends did not help. One asked, frightened, what Shostakovich thought the reaction from "Pravda" would be. Shostakovich jumped up from the piano, scowling, replying sharply, "I don't write for "Pravda", but for myself."