feb 8, 1955 - Georgii Malenkov is removed as premier
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"Malenkov’s Kremlin colleagues promptly demoted him for defeatism, while Churchill was forced by age and impatient subordinates to step down as PM early in 1955.
It would be left to Eisenhower and the man who deposed Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev to balance the fears and the hopes that now resided within the thermonuclear revolution." (Gaddis 2006, p. 65).
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