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On 4 February 1942 Beria and his ally Georgy Malenkov, both members of the State Defense Committee, were assigned to supervise production of aircraft, armaments, and ammunition. Many victims were exonerated posthumously during de-Stalinization in the 1950s–1960s.
Beria is the central character in Good Night, Uncle Joe by Canadian playwright David Elendune. The play is a fictionalised account of the events leading up to Stalin's death. The play is a fictionalised account of the events leading up to Stalin's death.
9 Aghasi Khanjian (murdered by Lavrentiy Beria or suicide) August. 22 Mikhail Tomsky (suicide) 25 Grigori Zinoviev, [1] Lev Kamenev, Grigori Yevdokimov, Ivan Bakayev, Sergei Mrachkovsky, Ivan Smirnov, Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan. September. 25 (Genrikh Yagoda dismissed from his post as head of the NKVD, and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov) October
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The executions were carried out at night, either in prisons or in secluded areas run by the NKVD and located as a rule on the outskirts of major cities. [ 64 ] The "Kulak Operation" was the largest single campaign of repression in 1937–38, with 669,929 people arrested and 376,202 executed, more than half the total of known executions.
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The Mingrelian affair, or Mingrelian case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in 1951 and 1952 in order to accuse several members of the Georgian SSR Communist Party of Mingrelian extraction of secession and collaboration with the Western powers.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The man accused of killing a woman sleeping on a New York City subway car by setting her on fire after what prosecutors say was a night of heavy drinking pleaded not guilty to ...