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Considering Malenkov was initially favor to succeed Yezhov in 1940, what would happen if he did?
According to the bio of him at the Cold War Museum
How his relationship with Beria progress? Would they remain syncretic rivals/frenemies?
In terms of the Eastern Front, would Malenkov make a difference? Would he be better or worse at organizing partisans? What would he do differently?
Would Stalin fear Malenkov postwar? his fears of Beria were certainly warranted, but on the other hand, he trusted Malenkov more than Khrushchev or anyone else for that matter, IOTL enough to try and make his his successor. Could Malenkov as NKVD director still be Stalin's designated successor? If he still is i'd imagine he'd be unstoppable and Khrushchev would get curbstomped, even if he wasn't he'd be a formidable contender.
Malenkov graduated from school with honors and became a political commissar for the Red Army in 1919 during the Russian civil war. Malenkov joined the Communist Party in 1920 and became one of Josef Stalin’s confidants, which helped him secure progressively higher promotions within the Party. He, along with Stalin’s other trusted accomplice Lavrenti Beria, executed Stalin’s purges of the 1930’s. Very telling of Malenkov’s increasing prestige in the Party is the fact that when the chief of the secret police, (NKVD) Yezhov Nikolai, fell out of Stalin’s favor in 1938, Malenkov was favored as the chief’s replacement. Beria was ultimately chosen for this position, which was perhaps the catalyst for the rivalry between the two men that was to emerge after World War II.
According to the bio of him at the Cold War Museum
How his relationship with Beria progress? Would they remain syncretic rivals/frenemies?
In terms of the Eastern Front, would Malenkov make a difference? Would he be better or worse at organizing partisans? What would he do differently?
Would Stalin fear Malenkov postwar? his fears of Beria were certainly warranted, but on the other hand, he trusted Malenkov more than Khrushchev or anyone else for that matter, IOTL enough to try and make his his successor. Could Malenkov as NKVD director still be Stalin's designated successor? If he still is i'd imagine he'd be unstoppable and Khrushchev would get curbstomped, even if he wasn't he'd be a formidable contender.