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Beria angrily dismissed his claims as panic-mongering and quickly left, ordering him, "Don't bother us, don't cause a panic and don't disturb Comrade Stalin!" [ 53 ] Alexsei Rybin, Stalin's bodyguard, recalled, "No one wanted to telephone Beria, since most of the personal bodyguards hated Beria".
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 ...
Lavrenty Beria and Vsevolod Merkulov were executed after Stalin's death. Immediate NKVD supervisor of the laboratory, Pavel Sudoplatov , received a long term in prison. 1978: Expanded into the Central Investigation Institute for Special Technology within the First Chief Directorate of the KGB .
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The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: Qırımtatar halqınıñ sürgünligi, Cyrillic: Къырымтатар халкъынынъ сюргюнлиги) or the Sürgünlik ('exile') was the ethnic cleansing and the cultural genocide [c 1] of at least 191,044 [c 2] Crimean Tatars that was carried out by Soviet Union authorities from 18 to 20 May 1944, supervised by Lavrentiy ...
The version that Beria was killed on the spot has only passing mention in the article. But as I remember (unfortunately from private sources) it was quite common knowledge in higher Soviet eschelons. The official version went of course into the books with some convincing myths, like Beria kneeling and begging for his life etc.
In his speech, Zelensky warned that Russia cannot be trusted especially following the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group mercenary army who was killed in a plane crash months after he ...
Eygi is the 18th demonstrator to be killed in Beita since 2020, and the only non-Palestinian, according to the ISM. At least two other American citizens have been killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7.