mar 5, 1953 - Stalin's Death
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- replaced by Malenkov for a short time, before Khrushchev outmanoeuvred his opponents to take charge
- after the funeral, Foreign Minister Malenkov initiated the beginnings of improved East-West cooperation
"we stand, as we have always stood, for the peaceful coexistence of the two systems" (Malenkov, 1953)
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