At the 22nd Party Congress in 1961, Lazurkina gave a speech in which she detailed a dream she had supposedly had in which Vladimir Lenin told her he did not want Joseph Stalin's body being situated next to his. Soon after the Congress, Stalin's body was removed from Lenin's Mausoleum and reburied in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Lazurkina's speech and the resulting actions are regarded as having aided Nikita Khrushchev's drive towards De-Stalinization.