--- title: Georgy Malenkov url: https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/georgy-malenkov/ description: 3 verified quotes from Georgy Malenkov, Secretary of the Central Committee, with sources. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a Cold War intelligence-briefing collage with the Kremlin, Eastern Bloc architecture and a reconnaissance map of Europe.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-techniques.jpg) [Quotes](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/) · Soviet Union # Georgy Malenkov ![Georgy Malenkov in 1950](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/soviet-union/georgy-malenkov.jpg) [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G.M._Malenkov_TASS_Portrait_Trim_Edit.jpg): G. Weil (Grigory Vayl) for TASS, Public domain (PD-Russia; PD-1996) Secretary of the Central Committee · Soviet Union On the regime page: [Soviet Union under Stalin](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/soviet-union/#georgy-malenkov) 3 quotes, oldest first. [Filter with other speakers](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/#speaker=georgy-malenkov). 1. > “The other trend in international politics is headed by the ruling clique of American imperialists. In their efforts to consolidate the position which American monopoly capital gained in Europe and Asia during the war, this clique has taken the path of outright expansion, of enthralling the weakened capitalist states of Europe and the colonial and dependent countries. It has chosen the path of hatching new war plans against the USSR and the new democracies under the banner of combating the “Communist menace”. The clearest and most specific expression of this policy pursued by American capital is provided by the Truman-Marshall plans.” — English: English text published in For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy!, vol. 1, no. 2, 1 December 1947; translator not credited. Original-language text not found. — September 1947 · Speech — Malenkov, a Secretary of the Central Committee, reported on the Party's activities to the September 1947 conference of Communist parties. This passage describes what he called two trends in post-war international politics. — Report on 'The Activities of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)' to the Conference of Communist Parties, September 1947, in For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy!, vol. 1, no. 2 (1 December 1947) [Source](https://www.marxists.org/archive/malenkov/1947/central-committee.htm) 2. > “Comrades, if we are asked what is the main thing in our foreign policy, it is, to put it briefly, that the Soviet Union stands for peace and upholds the cause of peace. The Soviet Union unswervingly pursues a policy of peace and friendship among the nations. We do not want war and we shall do everything in our power to prevent it. The peaceable policy of the Soviet Union springs from the very roots and underlying foundations of the Socialist system and from the interests of the Soviet people. We have completely abolished the age-old exploitation of man by man in our country, and thereby we have eliminated the reasons and causes which in the capitalist world give rise to the policy of exploiting and enslaving other nations. We have created a model of brotherly co-operation among peoples of different races and nationalities which is unparalleled in human history, and thereby we have cast aside forever the policy of building the welfare of one State on the suppression of other States. A policy which makes the suppression of the national sovereignty of other peoples its guiding principle is alien to us. A Socialist State has no need for foreign expansion. It has no need of colonial seizures. The Soviet Socialist system has eradicated the causes that give rise to economic crises, from which the rulers of the capitalist world usually seek escape in warlike gambles. The imperialists pin their hopes on warlike gambles because they are afraid of peaceful competition with Socialism. But it is quite evident that warlike gambles promise the imperialists nothing but disaster. The Soviet people do not fear peaceful competition with capitalism. That is why they are against a new war and stand in defence of peace, although they firmly know and are absolutely convinced that their strength is invincible. The Soviet people are fully conscious of their responsibility to history. They showed this when, not sparing their strength, they rose in a solid wall to save their country and all progressive humanity from the onslaught of the fascist barbarians. They are showing it in the post-war years, when well-known imitators of the fascist barbarians are brandishing over the world the bloody sword of a new war.” — English: English text published in World News and Views, vol. 29, no. 46, 12 November 1949; translator not credited. Original-language text not found. — November 6, 1949 · Speech · Moscow, Moscow Soviet — Malenkov spoke at the anniversary celebration of the October Revolution, in the year of the Soviet atomic test and the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. — 'On the Road to Communism', excerpts from a speech to the Moscow Soviet, 6 November 1949, World News and Views, vol. 29, no. 46 (12 November 1949) [Source](https://www.marxists.org/archive/malenkov/1949/11/06.htm) 3. > “That is why the peoples of the Soviet Union and all progressive mankind see in the person of Comrade Stalin their recognised leader and teacher. That is why today they express with particular warmth their affection and devotion to Comrade Stalin, and put on record his great services in the struggle for a happy life for the people, for peace among the nations.” — English: Soviet News, London, 1950 (Pravda Articles on the Occasion of the 70th Birthday of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin); translator not credited. Original-language text not found. — December 21, 1949 · Article · Pravda — One of the articles published in Pravda on Stalin's 70th birthday. — 'Comrade Stalin - Leader of Progressive Mankind', Pravda, 21 December 1949, in Pravda Articles on the Occasion of the 70th Birthday of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (London: Soviet News, 1950) [Source](https://www.marxists.org/archive/malenkov/1949/12/21.htm)