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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria [a] (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'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.
Beria's son, Sergo Beria, later recounted that after Stalin's death, his mother Nina told her husband that, "Your position now is even more precarious than when Stalin was alive." [ 11 ] This turned out to be correct; several months later, in June 1953, Beria was arrested and charged with a variety of crimes but, significantly, none relating to ...
Antonov-Ovseenko is best known for his biography of Lavrentiy Beria and he also wrote several books. Antonov-Ovseenko operated a state museum on the Gulag, for which the Moscow administration provided a building in August 2001. [4] [5]
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In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), under its new chief Lavrentiy Beria, started a new purge that initially hit the People's Commissariat of Ammunition, People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry, and People's Commissariat of Armaments. High-level officials admitted guilt, typically under torture, then ...
Earlier in 1938, Yezhov had even ordered the arrest of Beria, who was party chief in Georgia. However, Georgian NKVD chief Sergei Goglidze warned Beria, who immediately flew to Moscow to see Stalin personally. Beria convinced Stalin to spare his life and reminded Stalin how efficiently he had carried out party orders in Georgia and Transcaucasia.
In December 1953, he was chosen personally to execute Lavrentiy Beria as part of a plot led by Nikita Khrushchev [1] [2] and assisted by the military forces of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov (Batitsky was Colonel-General and First Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District at the time). [3] [4] Batitsky died in Moscow on 17 ...
Pages in category "Lavrentiy Beria" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...