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Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, wrote that Lenin should be honoured not by embalming, monuments, celebrations and the like, all of which had meant nothing to him, but by building day-care centres, kindergartens, homes and schools. Krupskaya continued her private protest by never visiting the mausoleum. The revolutionary poet, Mayakovsky, denounced the "rituals, mausoleums and processions" and the trafficking in Lenin kitsch. With the political defeat of Trotsky in 1926, however, the cult was fully established and regulated.
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