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In 1938 Stalin appointed Beria as second in command of the feared NKVD (state secret police) and within 2 years he had taken full control of the organisation responsible for the great purges that saw millions imprisoned or executed.
12 Φεβ 2024 · Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Joseph Stalin. He was top deputy of the NKVD during the Great Purge, responsible for many of the millions of imprisonments and killings.
Ministers until Stalin's death in March 1953, when he again took over the police, only to be arrested by his political opponents three months later. Although a relative latecomer to Stalin's entourage when he arrived in Moscow from his native Georgia in 1938, Beria soon became one of Stalin's closest confidants. That
Three years before he died Sudoplatov “an illegal” (agent, an assassin, and later senior officer of the Soviet secret services) who was deeply involved with Soviet intrigue, stealing atomic secrets from abroad, organising the death of Trotsky, and was close to Beria quoted Russia’s
22 Οκτ 2024 · Lavrenty Beria, director of the Soviet secret police who played a major role in the purges of Joseph Stalin’s opponents. After Stalin’s death, Beria apparently attempted to succeed him as sole dictator, but he was defeated by a coalition led by Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Nikita Khrushchev.
In January 1946, Beria resigned as chief of the NKVD while retaining general control over national security matters as Deputy Prime Minister and Curator of the Organs of State Security under Stalin. However, the new NKVD chief, Sergei Kruglov , was not a supporter of Beria.
12 Δεκ 2003 · Beria, who went on to run the Soviet network of slave-labour camps, was notorious for his sadistic enjoyment of torture and his taste for beating and raping women and violating young girls. Bald and bespectacled, by the time of Stalin’s death in 1953 he was one of the most hated men in the country.