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Beria was also a prolific sexual predator who serially raped scores of girls and young women, and there is evidence that he murdered some of his victims. An ethnic Georgian, Beria enlisted in the Cheka in 1920, and quickly rose through its ranks.
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.
Dec 12, 2003 · Stalin's security chief Lavrenti Beria was executed on December 23rd, 1953. Beria with Stalin in the background and Stalin's daughter Svetlana Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian, like Stalin, who called him ‘my Himmler’.
Lavrenti Beria Archive. 1899-1953. Biography. Works: 1935: On the History of the Bolshevik Organizations in Transcaucasia [Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Party Functionaries July 21-22, 1935] 1936: The Victory of the National Policy of Lenin and Stalin. 1949: Obituary of G.M. Dimitrov. 1950: The Great Contrast. Archive of Lavrenti Beria.
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.
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. Early Life and Rise to Power:
Lavrentiy Beria was calculating and vicious, hard-working and hedonist – and people feared him so much that it led to his downfall. 1. Stalin’s compatriot and right-hand
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; March 29, 1899 – December 23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police apparatus. Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages of Joseph Stalin's Great ...
Jun 27, 2018 · BERIA, LAVRENTI PAVLOVICH (1899–1953), Soviet politician and police official, chief of the NKVD 1938–1946. Born in Merkheuli, a village in the Georgian Republic, Lavrenti Beria enrolled in the Baku Polytechnic for Mechanical Construction in 1915 and graduated four years later.
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.
