Malenkov, Beria, Bulganin, and Khrushchev watched a movie with Stalin that evening, then drove to Kuntsevo for eating and drinking late into the night.
Political rivals Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy
Malenkov, Vasily Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrentiy Beria
Nevertheless, new Soviet Premier Georgi
Malenkov expressed hope of peaceful "coexistence and competition" during his address at Stalin's funeral.
Shortly afterwards internal fighting for power in the Soviet Union started: in mid-March 1953,
Malenkov resigned from the post of Secretary of the party and Khrushchev was promoted to the position of First Secretary of the party; in the summer of 1953, Beria was arrested and then killed; in February 1955,
Malenkov resigned from the post of Prime Minister, too, Nikolai Bulganin being appointed in his place.
In 1953, Georgy
Malenkov was named premier of the Soviet Union a day after the death of Josef Stalin.
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Nominal Soviet leader Georgi
Malenkov (supported by Stalin deputy Lavrentiy Beria) issued another call for peace, and the collective leadership brought back the seasoned V.M.
In this period similar ideas were promoted by Beria and
Malenkov. Molotov's initiative, Roberts argues, was torpedoed by Khrushchev, who was intent on consolidating Soviet gains in Germany and in Eastern Europe.