Kliment Voroshilov purges Stalin?

How do the Soviets fair under Voroshilov

  • Mark improvement in WW2 and the long run

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Here's the set up. In early 1940 for what ever reason, Larenity Beria is purged by Stalin. To take over the NKVD, Stalin taps Kliment Voroshilov. This removes Voroshilov from the Winter War which has been going badly for the Soviets. Nothing major chances till the early days Operation Barborossa when Stalin is in his dacha, Voroshilov, sees at the failures of the Soviet Union as Stalin's fault and decieded to remove him from the equation.

Sometime on June 25/26 Voroshilov lets the world know Stalin has died of a heart attack. But the truth is Voroshilov killed Stalin. Voroshilov will have control of the NKVD, and the military will most likely support him. With control of those two, you have control of the Soviet Union in my book.

So with Voroshilov running the Soviet Union, how will the Soviet Union do in WW2 and in the post war years?
 
Such an event would almost certainly open door to endless succession of coups. Once the taboo is broken by somebody, everyone would want to hop on the wagon.
 
The problem is that Stalin trusted ( if that man was capable of trust at all ) his all Georgian buddy Beria ( he was more or less his personal butcher ) a lot more than he trusted KV ... not impossible per se, but awfully difficult
 
Based on Voroshilov's military and bureaucratic performance, I could only see him participating in a coup as the figurehead. He only survived as long as he did because (unlike say, Tukachevsky) , Voroshilov was too incompetent to threaten Stalin's rule.
 
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