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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия; Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია) is the main antagonist of 2017 political satire black comedy film The Death of Stalin loosely based on French graphic novel La Mort de Staline written by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin.
One wonders who was "more" psychopathic: Joseph Stalin or his henchman, Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the secret police. Have the Internet and other technological developments aided psychopaths? Hare: Immeasurably!
Mar 9, 2018 · Was Beria actually a pedophile? Lavrentiy Beria, the chief of the secret police portrayed with blackhearted haughtiness by Simon Russell Beale, is the most contemptible figure in Iannucci’s...
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Oct 18, 2017 · Most monstrous of all is the rat king of secret policemen Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), the kind of psychopath for whom vast power is simply good cover. “Shoot her before him but...
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.
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Jan 15, 2014 · Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, author of the Katyn massacre. (Wikimedia) In early 1940, the Soviet Union executed 22,000 Polish officers, intellectuals and others deemed problematic to Soviet...
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War.
