"Mayakovsky was and is the best and most talented poet of our Soviet era. Indifference to his memory and works is a crime."

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Memorandum by Joseph Stalin; translation from Katerina Clark et al. (trans. Marian Schwartz) Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007) p. 288