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So I have this idea for a TL that refuses to leave my brain alone - the specific PoD is Stalin dying in 1946. However, one of the knock-on effects is that after a protracted power struggle lasting until 1950, Marshal Zhukov emerges as General Secretary of the CPSU and leader of the USSR.

Now, from the biographies I've read about him, Zhukov strikes me as a far better potential leader of the USSR in the 50s and 60s than Khrushchev actually was. However, this may be because I am reading the wrong biographies or simply me suffering from "grass-is-greener-itis".

So I was hoping to get some other perspectives on the thought - do people think Zhukov would have made a good leader between 1950 and the mid '60s? And what strengths or weaknesses do people see in him?

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