“Within days it was announced by the Central Committee that Lenin would not be buried next to his mother, as he had requested, but that his body would be embalmed and buried in the Kremlin Wall (and soon in a specially built mausoleum he remains to this day). His widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, opposed this and further asked that nothing be named after him […] She was ignored, just as she was ignored in her request that Lenin’s “Testament” be read out to the Party Congress. Instead, Petersburg would now become Leningrad, the 21 January was to become a day of national mourning, and statues (which Lenin reputedly said were only good for “collecting bird shit”) would soon appear everywhere.” SocialismCommunismLeninKremlinLeft CommunismNadezhda Krupskaya Book:Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left Source: Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left