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(Disclaimer: reliability of these sources not guaranteed. Just havin' a little fun here, folks.)

Françoise Thom's footnotes to this translation of Beria, My Father cite a claim made by Zhukov in his own trial to corroborate the blackmail:

This claim comes up frequently in historiography. From Stalin's Loyal Executioner, Petrov & Jansen:

In Khrushchev's memoirs, Beria's explanation of why and how he keeps Malenkov around seem to support this idea:

Then again, as Khrushchev tells us, Malenkov wouldn't have it any other way:

The overall outline I have for this is: primary documents (i.e. letters), memoir, fake memoir(!), historiography/commentary, documentaries, then prose fiction, then comics, then TV and film - perhaps with a special bonus category for fanworks? Here's a question for you, Anon: how would you prefer to see this published? On Ao3? As a Google Doc I link from here? Etc.?