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>Georgy Zhukov
He feared Zhukov might not have been a true communist and would become a Napoleon like figure and declare himself Czar.

His chosen successor, Georgy Malenkov, was a true communist unlike that pos Khrushchev, who staged a silent coup in 1953 by arresting and executing Beria under false evidence. After that he comes out with the debunked anti-Stalin speech and Malenkov and others come out against him in 1957, he gets Georgy Zhukov to side with him and get the military to coup the communists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Party_Group

>On June 18, 1957, the leaders of the group – Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich – were joined at the last minute by Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov, whom Kaganovich had convinced that the group had a majority. Although they did not have a majority in the entire Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee, they had a majority of the Presidium's 11 full members, [2] who were the only ones that could vote.[3] In the Presidium the group's proposal to replace Khrushchev as First Secretary with Premier Nikolai Bulganin won with 7 to 4 votes in which Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich, Bulganin, Voroshilov, Pervukhin and Saburov supported and Khrushchev, Mikoyan, Suslov and Kirichenko opposed,[4] but Khrushchev argued that only the plenum of the Central Committee could remove him from office. At an extraordinary session of the Central Committee held on June 22, Khrushchev argued that his opponents were an "anti-party group".

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Why didn’t Joseph Stalin appoint Georgy Zhukov as his successor? What would the USSR look like under Georgy Zukhov?