Well the USSR was a democracy, not a monarchy. Malenkov became party head briefly because it was uncertain on how party Secretariat would be appointed, that’s true. He would have been presumably who Stalin would have preferred. But the central Soviet didn’t much care for Malenkov, so they formally elected Krushchev a few months later.
Yeah that’s fair, my knowledge post WWII gets really fuzzy so I can’t confidently critique what followed.
It’s easy to claim things should have been done differently, in retrospect after the fall of the USSR. But it’s not very useful without careful examination.
Well the USSR was a democracy, not a monarchy. Malenkov became party head briefly because it was uncertain on how party Secretariat would be appointed, that’s true. He would have been presumably who Stalin would have preferred. But the central Soviet didn’t much care for Malenkov, so they formally elected Krushchev a few months later.
Yeah that’s fair, my knowledge post WWII gets really fuzzy so I can’t confidently critique what followed.
It’s easy to claim things should have been done differently, in retrospect after the fall of the USSR. But it’s not very useful without careful examination.