Marketing was invented by Lenin. But even with his talent, it was impossible to entirely devote himself to marketing and advertising in the USSR. In these pages of the leader's life we notice Mayakovsky.
Their first encounter in absentia did not go well at all:
How is it not shameful to vote for an edition of Mayakovsky of 150,000,000 in 5,000 copies? Nonsense, stupidity, and pretentiousness. In my opinion, to print such things <...> libraries and for cranks»
— Lenin remarked expressively and reproachfully. And in vain: Mayakovsky was on his side, after all Vladimir Vladimirovich is one of the creators and marketers of the revolution. But Lenin stuck to his line:
We must stop it. Let's agree not to print these futurists more than twice a year
And a personal acquaintance should have broken all ties between them:
— Is the head of the agency here?
— So there is no one? No one at all?
Mayakovsky could not come to his senses after this conversation for a long time.
Mayakovsky, in turn, admired Lenin, as evidenced by his works:
I would have learned Russian
But who
can refrain,
to praise
to our Ilyich?