• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      8·
      24 days ago

      I heard that answer many times, but was he really good candidate? In most critical time he was limp dick who did nothing and got ousted by Khrushchev with not many problems. He could be a good candidate for many offices, as his career proves, but not the highest one.

      • Large Bullfrog@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        8·
        24 days ago

        That’s why I said easiest answer, as in the most realistic and obvious, I don’t doubt there would of been better candidates then Malenkov if you could choose anyone. I’m not really knowledgeable enough about the various other obscure Soviet politicians of that time frame to give an answer there though.

          • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
            7·
            24 days ago

            If you look at who the most demonization and smears were spread about then certainly you get the impression that the revisionists feared Beria the most. And he does indeed seem to have been the most politically capable of the potential successors, but i’ve always thought Molotov was perhaps after Stalin the most principled and most “true believer” Marxist-Leninist of the Soviet leadership at the time.

            • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              6·
              24 days ago

              that the revisionists feared Beria the most

              Yes they did. If you read the famous Furr book “Khrushchev lied”, Furr explains there that at first he didn’t even paid special attention, but it’s the blatant lies Khrushchev told about Beria made him to look closer and investigate entire speech.

              Molotov

              Quite possibly

            • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
              2·
              24 days ago

              Are you claiming there was a soviet-union-wide conspiracy to smear Beria, consisting of falsified documents and spanning over 20 years? Involving not only the Russian SFSR, but Georgian, Azerbaijani, Abkhazian communist parties as well?

              Khrushchev and his cronies managed to invent in a couple of months a trove of evidence against Beria that was corroborated by many others (co-conspirators, no doubt).

              OR, Beria was a monster.

              I’m gonna go with Occam’s razor here.