Word: malenkov
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...power to make the charge was the power to make it stick. Did any of these feared and fearing men challenge Malenkov, demand to know what evidence there was to sustain so grave a charge, or rise to Comrade Beria's defense? The subsequent communique said only that the Central Committee had decided to expel Beria from the party as "an enemy of the people...
...news of Beria's downfall reached the outside world in a dawn broadcast from Radio Moscow, followed by an official Tass announcement. Then the speculations began. PURGE DECIDES POWER BATTLE FOR MALENKOV, headlined the Detroit News; MOLOTOV RISES AS PURGE PERILS MALENKOV, headlined the New York World-Telegram, which later front-paged...
...replaced by Nikolai Yezhov, a madman who carried on the slaughter to the point where millions of Russians were dead or jailed. Yezhov, often styled "the beloved pupil of our leader and teacher Stalin," had his own group of pupils, among them a fat, pallid young man named Georgy Malenkov. After two years in office, Yezhov disappeared. His successor: Lavrenty Beria...
...back to the NKVD and through him to Stalin. His operatives followed Trotsky to Mexico, killed him there. When Germany attacked Russia, Beria's police system was Stalin's organizational strength. Stalin made him one of the five members of the State Defense Committee (the others: Stalin, Malenkov, Molotov, Voroshilov), and Lavrenty Beria was at last in the very top Soviet leadership. After the war, as the fortunes of Malenkov and Molotov fluctuated, and Voroshilov showed signs of age, the legend grew that Beria was the man closest to Stalin, his most trusted confidant and, protector...
...Party Control Commission, by which Stalin organized himself into power after Lenin's death, and which later became a department of personnel in the Kremlin. Only such an apparatus could have arrested and destroyed former police chief Yagoda. From being dossier clerk to Yezhov, the young Malenkov is said to have graduated to secretarial head of this tidy personnel department. He may well have inherited the apparatus after Stalin's death...