The author of this policy was Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police. Beria was not simply a detached administrator of death, he was a serial rapist who employed the apparatus of the
Stalin could get away with purges because he was both loved and feared. Beria was just hated and feared due to his connections to Stalin, not a good combo. Once Stalin dies it's just a matter of time before Beria joins him. Terra_117 ⢠1 hr. ago. Military/Politburo coup. Zhukov was the one who arrested Beria after the death of Stalin OTL.
According to his claim, he killed twice as many as runner-up Peter Maggo â another Soviet executioner whoâs believed to have killed more than 10,000 people. The deaths of Stalin and Beria in 1953 signaled Blokhinâs downfall. Stripped of his rank and honors, he sank into alcoholism before dying by suicide in 1955.
The fat man with the thin wire-rimmed glasses and the funny black hatâthe one who stands near the coffin and then serves as one of the pallbearersâis Lavrentiy Beria, Stalinâs last and
Beria was arrested three months after Stalin died, not almost simultaneously, and he was not head of the security forces, a job he had given up in 1946. Armando Iannucci: âI was saved from being
Beria was the longest-lived and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after the war. Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, he was responsible for organising purges such as the Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers and officials. He would later also orchestrate the
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