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After Stalin died Beria made a power grab but was out manoeuvered by Nikita Khrushchev who had him arrested, tortured by his own police, tried for treason and sentenced to death. Before his execution he fell to his knees and cried for mercy, but just as he never gave any mercy to any of his victims none was awarded to Beria and he was shot ...
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.
22 Οκτ 2024 · Lavrenty Beria (born March 29 [March 17, Old Style], 1899, Merkheuli, Russian Empire [now in Georgia]—died December 23, 1953, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was the director of the Soviet secret police who played a major role in the purges of Joseph Stalin’s opponents.
In June 1953, a coup d'état by Nikita Khrushchev, with the support of other members of the leadership and Marshal Georgy Zhukov, removed Beria from power. He was arrested, tried for treason and other offences, and executed in December.
The foundations for Beria's special relationship with Stalin were established well before he came to Moscow. Beria first attracted Stalin's attention in the 1920s when he was a leading police official in Georgia, rising to the post of Chairman of the GPU (the political police) in Georgia by 1926 and by 1931 Chairman of the
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
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.
