Modern phones are optimized for passive entertainment and no longer come with the necessary attachments to do real work like carpentry and harvesting wheat.
Well the USSR was a democracy, not a monarchy. Malenkov became party head briefly because it was uncertain on how party Secretariat would be appointed, that's true. He would have been presumably who Stalin would have preferred. But the central Soviet didn't much care for Malenkov, so they formally elected Krushchev a few months later.
A great lesson to apply to all sorts of organizations. You actually have to put in time and effort to develop people and have someone capable and popular to hand projects over to.
I was recently at a restaurant, sitting at the bar, and some guy was having a heated argument on the phone and slammed his cellphone on the bar as he hung up. I thought he would regret that because he probably fucked up his phone. But, no, dude answered the phone again, yelled, hung up, and slammed his phone again two more times!
Truly the only loser, no matter the circumstances.
(approvingly) Saturday morning cartoon villain telephone. The type of phone you use to order henchmen or blackmail the UN or get bad news and then crush the globe that holds the rotary