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"Vladimir Fedorovich, what do you think about having Nikita Sergeyevich (Khrushchev) replace Andrei Andreevich as a member of the Central Secretariat of the supervisory cadres and state security departments?"

After Andreyev's reshuffle, his functions in the Secretariat of the Central Committee were temporarily divided between Manturov and Kuznetsov, two still serving secretaries of the Central Committee. As deputy chairman of the Central Supervisory Commission, Manturov took over the responsibility of Andreyev to supervise cadres, while Alexei Kuznetsov temporarily took over the power of supervising the state security and anti-counterterrorism departments.

The power of the two of them has been greatly improved for a while, and they have also begun to show themselves in their new jobs.

As the supervisor of the state security department, Kuznetsov received a lot of letters accusing Beria and his subordinates of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as soon as he took office, and wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of Beria.

However, Kuznetsov did not have a single agency capable of conducting an investigation into the Ministry of Internal Affairs (the only one that could investigate the Ministry of Internal Affairs at that time was the Central Supervisory Commission, in the hands of Andreyev and Manturov), so he swaggered into the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the name of "familiarizing himself with the work" and read the classified documents and historical archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

These files record many of Beria's misdeeds, and if Kuznetsov discovers them, Beria may be in danger of being beheaded.

So, after receiving the news that Kuznetsov wanted to check the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Beria began to feel that his position was threatened, so he asked the new Minister of Internal Affairs Abakumov to hide the files with sensitive content and let Kuznetsov read only some irrelevant things.

Although Beria left the Ministry of Internal Affairs and became an ordinary member of the Politburo's Foreign Affairs Committee with little power, as a veteran of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the "Bole" of many leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (including Abakumov), he still has control over the anti-rebellion and state security departments.

Abakumov effectively carried out Beria's instructions, put away all the documents that contained sensitive content, and stuffed Kuznetsov with only a large pile of irrelevant things.

However, Kuznetsov came this time to find faults, and not to "get acquainted with the work", as a result, he spent so much time and did not find out what he "wanted" after reading all the documents, and he must have been very unhappy in his heart.

But so what? Although he held a high position as the secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, he did not have much real power at all, there was no one with him in the entire anti-rebellion system, and the Central Supervision Commission was in the hands of Manturov and Andreyev, so he could not do anything.

In desperation, he had no choice but to give up.

As for Manturov, he himself is the deputy chairman of the Central Supervision Commission, and he is very familiar with the supervision of cadres. After becoming the secretary of the Central Committee for supervising cadres, he also received many letters about the violation of discipline by certain cadres.

After reading these letters, he would often send people to investigate and deal with them, and remove these cadres who violated discipline one by one.

Of course, those baseless report letters, as well as those letters accusing "their own people" or Stalin, Zhdanov, Beria and other bigwigs, have not been dealt with, but the reported "small fish and shrimp" are miserable, once they are found to have violated the first discipline, they will be removed from their posts immediately, or even directly arrested and sent to Siberia for labor.

Stalin still recognized the "positive performance" of the two Central Committee secretaries, but Stalin did not want this situation to continue.

He could allow Kuznetsov to continue to supervise the state security services, but he did not want Manturov to be in charge of both personnel and supreme supervision within the party, and to control the promotion and promotion of all cadres.

Therefore, he hoped to bring an obedient and reliable person into the Secretariat of the Central Committee to take over Andreyev's original work, so as to achieve the goal of counterbalancing Manturov, Zhdanov and Kuznetsov.

Under these circumstances, Stalin chose several people he believed to be trustworthy, including Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Ukrainian party committee, Patolychev, the secretary of the Chelyabinsk regional party committee, and Ponomarenko, the first secretary of the Belarusian party committee.

Among these people, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Secretary of the Party Committee of Ukraine, is undoubtedly the most well-known, the highest status (and also a member of the Politburo), and the most capable of sycophancy.

But his actual work ability is not high, he has no political achievements, and his personal character is also the worst of the three. Manturov, as a traverser, knew him well, at least he knew what Khrushchev would do to the Soviet Union as a good socialist country after he became the leader of the CPSU.

When Stalin asked about Khrushchev, Manturov did not hesitate to criticize this sycophant: "Comrade Khrushchev was a very good bureaucrat, who was not only good at playing with authority, but also had his own way of courting his superiors, buying people's hearts, and shirking responsibility.

He is often able to earnestly fulfill the tasks assigned by the central authorities, and he is able to exceed the quota. If you tell him to catch 100 kulaks, he will catch 1,000 for you. When you asked him to hold a celebration to commemorate the October Revolution, he simply turned it into a congress to praise your merits, and hung your portrait everywhere, not even as many as your portrait of Comrade Lenin. ”

When Stalin heard this, his heart suddenly became angry. He never expected that Manturov would criticize Khrushchev in front of him without any scruples, nor did he expect that Khrushchev's behavior would be so excessive.

"I also felt that Nikita Sergeyevich had some bureaucratic tendencies, that he always praised me excessively and elevated me to a higher position than Comrade Lenin. But he's not bureaucratized to the point where you say he's been, is he? ”

"Comrade Stalin, I think you need to beware of those who praise and exalt you too much. The reason why these people praise you on the surface and elevate you to a higher position than Lenin is that they hope to win your favor and give them better positions to satisfy their desire for power.

It is still okay to let these people do some executive work, because they often follow the instructions of their superiors and try their best to complete the work assigned by their superiors satisfactorily, so as to obtain the praise of their superiors and gain the trust of their superiors.

However, it is not appropriate to let them hold important positions in the Party Central Committee, especially when it comes to personnel appointments and dismissals and ideological positions. ”

Stalin nodded and said: "Nikita Sergeyevich (Khrushchev) may really have bureaucratic tendencies, and what you say may be true, but this does not mean that he is not a communist cadre, and we will continue to observe him."

But in any case, since he has bureaucratic tendencies, let not let him be the secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee. He should not be put in charge of supervising the work of the cadres. ”