A Soviet politician and close associate of Stalin, Malenkov was the virtual head of the USSR in 1953-1955.
Georgy Malenkov was born in Orenburg, in the Russian Empire. In 1919 he voluntarily joined the Red Army and was a political worker of the military forces. In a year Malenkov joined the Communist Party and soon became an active functionary. From 1920 Georgy Malenkov studied electrotechnics in the Bauman Moscow State Technical University and headed the commission for the exposure of students who supported the ideas of Leon Trotsky, whose politics sharply differed from Stalinism. Almost all of these students became victims of repressions and many were killed.
In 1925, having received an opportunity to become a clerk in one of the departments of the Communist Party, Georgy Malenkov quit his studies and focused on his political career. His diligent work was noticed by higher authorities and in 1930 Malenkov was appointed the head of the organizational department of the Moscow Committee of the Communist Party and took part in a purge of the corresponding committee of the opposition. In 1934 Georgy Malenkov was promoted by Stalin and under his command he took part in a mass campaign of inspection and repression of many communist officials. The infamous head of the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD), Nikolay Ezhov, recommended Malenkov for the post of his deputy.
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