Gueorgui Malenkov
(Gueorgui, Georgy or Georgi Maximiliánovich Malenkov; Orenburg, 1902-Moscow, 1988) Soviet politician.At a young age, he joined the Red Army and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) as a volunteer.When he was twenty years old, he was appointed Political Commissar of the Army who fought in Turkestan against the rebels in Central Asia.In 1922 he entered the Escuela Superior Técnica, where he spent three years.He was appointed cell secretary of the Communist Party in 1925.In that same year he met Stalin, who decided his fate: he welcomed Malenkov as personal secretary.
Gueorgui Malenkov
At age 37, after the 18th CPSU Congress, Georgy Malenkov became one of the most powerful and feared men in the Soviet Union.As Stalin's right-hand man, he had direct responsibility for the execution of prominent communists in Europe and the Soviet Union itself during the Moscow trials in the 1930s.After the end of World War II, he formed a triumvirate under Stalin, together with Vyacheslav Molotov and Lavrenti Beria.
In the 1950s, events in the USSR demonstrated that Malenkov had displaced Molotov as heir to the red throne of the Kremlim.Around 1952 he held several positions of relevance simultaneously: full member of the Politburo, in charge of the Secretariat for Organization and Staff of the Central Committee of the CPSU and head of the Council of Ministers.From 1953 (the year of Stalin's death) to 1955 it was the number one in the Kremlim.
Georgy Malenkov was one of the main promoters of the Russian Program for the Development of Nuclear Energy and announced in 1953 that the Soviet Union possessed the hydrogen bomb.In 1954 he officially requested the Soviet Union to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a request that was denied at the behest of the United States.In response to this decision, the Warsaw Pact was created on May 14, 1955.His agricultural development plan became a total failure, prompting his resignation in 1955.
In 1957, Malenkov he was demoted and expelled from the party, accused of trying to overthrow Khrushchev.Thereafter, he was apparently dedicated to the management of a hydroelectric power station located east of Kazan.After his retirement, he ostracized himself in a small apartment that the Soviet authorities designated for him and his family.He died at 86 years of age, after converting to Christianity and receiving baptism in the Russian Orthodox Church.
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