<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Malenkov" id="mw4w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Georgy Malenkov">Georgy Malenkov</a> succeeds <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" id="mw5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mw5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Premier of the Soviet Union">Premier of the Soviet Union</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_secretary" id="mw5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="General secretary">First Secretary</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mw5w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a>.