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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (/ ˈ b ɛ r i ə / BERR-ee-ə; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия, IPA: [lɐˈvrʲenʲtʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈbʲerʲɪjə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, romanized: Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria; 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was ...
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.
Dec 12, 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.
Lavrentiy Beria, a name synonymous with brutality and terror, played a pivotal role in one of the darkest periods of Soviet history. As the chief enforcer of Joseph Stalin’s regime, Lavrentiy Beria’s actions left an indelible mark on the Soviet Union.
Someone who was almost as terrifying as Stalin himself, and yet might just have made the world a better, safer place if he’d come to power instead of Khrushchev. He was Lavrentiy Beria, and his parallel-universe leadership of the USSR is one of the great “what-ifs” of the 20th Century.
Lavrentiy Beria was calculating and vicious, hard-working and hedonist – and people feared him so much that it led to his downfall.
Jun 26, 2023 · Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s head of secret police and right hand man, was an inhuman monster. A rapist and murderer, his fall from power was sudden and brutal.
Beria was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, against the Nazis from 1941-1945 and First Deputy Premier in the post-war years (1946–53).
Jun 27, 2018 · The Soviet secret-police chief and political leader Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria (1899-1953) was a close associate of Stalin and was responsible for internal security—and terror—during the last 15 years of Stalin's rule.
BERIA, LAVRENTY (1899–1953) BIBLIOGRAPHY. Soviet political figure under Joseph Stalin and head of the Soviet secret police. Born to a poor peasant family in 1899, Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria was, like Joseph Stalin, a Georgian by nationality.
