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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (/ ˈ b ɛ r i ʌ /; Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, IPA: [lɐˈvrʲenʲtʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ‿ˈbʲerʲɪjə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, romanized: Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria; 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a ...
The laboratory was under the direct supervision of NKVD director Lavrenty Beria and his deputy Vsevolod Merkulov from 1939 to March 1953. Victims included the American Isaiah Oggins. March 14, 1953: It was renamed to Laboratory 12. V. Naumov became the newly appointed head. Lavrenty Beria and Vsevolod Merkulov were
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
The saying is commonly attributed to the Stalinist-era Soviet jurist Andrey Vyshinsky, [2] [5]: 200 [6] the Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria, [3] [4] [9] [8]: 85 or to Stalin himself. There are no documentary evidence for Beria's or Stalin's attribution, however there are some memoirs that Vyshinsky uttered this phrase. [10]
Beria's proposal of 29 January 1942 to execute 46 generals. Stalin's resolution: "Shoot all named in the list. – J. St." Between October 1940 and February 1942, in spite of the ongoing German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Red Army, in particular the Soviet Air Force, as well as Soviet military-related industries were subjected to purges by Joseph Stalin.
Beria has been suspected of murder, although no firm evidence has ever appeared. [115] Stalin left no anointed successor nor a framework within which a transfer of power could take place. [119] The Central Committee met on the day of his death, with Malenkov, Beria, and Khrushchev emerging as the party's key figures. [120]
The Vorkuta Uprising was a major uprising of forced labor camp inmates at the Rechlag Gulag special labor camp in Vorkuta, Russian SFSR, USSR from 19 July (or 22 July) to 1 August 1953, shortly after the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria on 26 June 1953. The uprising was violently stopped by the camp administration after two weeks of bloodless standoff.
Beria sent a memorandum to Stalin on 28 November 1944, in which he accused the Meskhetian Turks of "smuggling" and of being "used by Turkish intelligence for espionage". [18] Beria's secret decree painted the Meskhetian Turks, the Kurds and the Hemshils as "untrustworthy population" that must be removed from the border region. [ 15 ]