Stalin’s ‘Heir’?: Georgi M. Malenkov is rated by many Western observers as most likely to succeed Joseph Stalin as Soviet premier. He is the West-hating secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee, a member of the powerful Politburo and of the Orgburo. Only Stalin has also sat in all three of these bodies.
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Stalin’s ‘Heir’?: Georgi M. Malenkov is rated by many Western observers as most likely to succeed Joseph Stalin as Soviet premier. He is the West-hating secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee, a member of the powerful Politburo and of the Orgburo. Only Stalin has also sat in all three of these bodies.