Also seems he looked upon him kindly, albeit retrospectively "Joseph Stalin posthumously declared Mayakovsky "the best and the most talented poet of our Soviet epoch."
True indeed. I think the retrospective aspect may be key, however.
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Also seems he looked upon him kindly, albeit retrospectively "Joseph Stalin posthumously declared Mayakovsky "the best and the most talented poet of our Soviet epoch."