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...MALENKOV SUCCESSOR...
Another acceptable theory has it that the rise of Gregor Malenkov is also reflected in the Purges. Many of the convicted deviationists were old guard Party members and carried potential opposition to Malenkov's struggle for Stalin's inheritance. There is also some evidence that Malenkov, not Beria, ordered the arrest of the accused Moscow doctors. It nows seems that the Kremlin has made an irrevocable decision to finish another task that Hitler started. There are 2,500,000 Soviet Jews...
...been bad for him." "I'm younger than Churchill," he said, "and I don't admit his superiority even in the matter of how much alcohol we can take." From about that time, Budu implies, the Soviet Union has been run pretty much by the Molotov-Malenkov axis, even though Stalin used to complain that "Molotov is no good at ending arguments, only at starting them . . . Sometimes he is really unbearable...
...conclusion that the criticism hinted at trouble for Politburocrat Lavrenty Beria, longtime boss of the secret police system; but this is premature. On the very night the "plot" was disclosed, Stalin appeared at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. With him, in we-hang-to-gether fashion, were Malenkov, Molotov, Voroshilov, Khrushchev-and Beria...
Then several things happened to change the fashion. Zhdanov died. His old enemy Malenkov succeeded to the place of favor at Stalin's right hand, and Voznesensky disappeared-apparently clean off the face of the earth. P. Fedoseev, editor of the official magazine Bolshevik, was suddenly bounced out of his job for having praised the Voznesensky book, which, it now seemed, was nothing but "an idealistic motley of loose opinions . . . showing a total and absolute break with Marxism." What awful thing had Voznesensky said? He wrote that the Soviet system works so well that ordinary economic laws of price...