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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ( / ˈbɛriə / 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 a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin ...
- Nina Gegechkori
- Pavel Beria (father), Marta Jaqeli (mother)
Apr 17, 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lavrentiy Beria’s legacy is one of infamy. He was a key figure in Stalin’s regime of terror, responsible for the suffering and deaths of countless individuals. His ruthlessness and unwavering loyalty to the Soviet regime earned him a place among history’s most notorious enforcers.
- Stalin’s compatriot and right-hand. Just like his boss Joseph Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria (1899 – 1953) was born and bred in Georgia. An ethnic Mingrelian (a small nation closely-related to Georgians), during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921) he specialized in spying and undercover operations for the Bolsheviks in neighboring Azerbaijan.
- Reduced the extent of the Great Terror. In Russia, it is common to associate Beria, the longest-sitting head of the NKVD during Stalin’s era, with mass repressions.
- In charge of the atomic project. Stalin appreciated Beria’s organizational skills enough to put him in charge of the manufacture of armaments, aircraft and aircraft engines during World War II – which was in addition to his duties in state security that included both coordinating the work of spies and the infamous deportations of ethnic groups accused of collaborating with the Germans – Chechens, Crimean Tatars and so on.
- Rumored to be a rapist. “Stalin’s attitude towards Beria was special. He was the only one among the top members of the Communist Party not to have an apartment but a mansion in Moscow all to himself,” Lurie states.
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.
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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 Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian-born Soviet politician who was the most influential of leader Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his greatest influence as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the period of the Second World War.
