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I'm new to AH, and had been thinking about some possible ideas to offer the discussion, and here's one I came up with:

It is 1953 in the Soviet Union and Lavrenty Beria, Deputy Premier and head of the feared NKVD, finds out through an informant that the group of Krushchev, Bulganin, Malenkov and Molotov are planning to get rid of him. Fearing for his position and his life, he calls in his security forces, who promptly arrest the four. They are given a quick trial by a " Special Court" composed of Beria's men, are pronounced enemies of the people and are swiftly executed by firing squad. This leaves Beria as leader of the USSR.

What happens next?
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