Plausibility: Could Stalin be assissanated post-Purge | When would be best?

And the fact that he wasn't assasinated or retired or had an accident, only serves to prove how pervasive the terror he instilled in his subordinates was.
 
Voroshilov decides hes had enough...

"Get me zhukov"

Zhukov is the only person in the USSR with enough power influence and respect from the armed forces to be able to get some special forces loyal to him and get it done, like he did with Beria later in otl.
 
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