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In the 1981 novel Noble House by James Clavell, set in 1963 Hong Kong, the main character Ian Dunross receives a set of secret documents regarding a Soviet spy-ring in Hong Kong code-named "Sevrin" signed by an LB (Lavrentiy Beria). The arrest and execution of Beria is recreated in the Robert Moss novel Moscow Rules as part of the rise of main ...
The Amnesty of 1953 (Russian: Амнистия 1953 года) was the largest amnesty in the history of the Soviet Union (and in the history of Russia) in terms of the number of the released persons. It was declared by the March 27, 1953 Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on the Amnesty.
Lavrentiy Beria: Soviet Union 1930–1953 Unknown Leading official in the Soviet Union who serially raped women under threat of execution if they resisted. [1] Number of victims is unknown, although evidence suggests a victim count in the hundreds. [2] Executed for treason in 1953 after a trial during which his sexual crimes were brought to ...
By a special judicial presence of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on December 23, 1953, together with Beria, Bogdan Kobulov, Vsevolod Merkulov, Sergo Goglidze, Vladimir Dekanozov and Pavel Meshik, he was sentenced to death as well as confiscation of personal property and stripped from all military honors.
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Блохи́н; 19 January [O.S. 7 January] 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Soviet secret police official who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolay Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria.
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
Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov (Russian: Богда́н Заха́рович Кобу́лов; 1 March 1904 – 23 December 1953) served as a senior member of the Soviet security- and police-apparatus during the rule of Joseph Stalin. After Stalin's death he was arrested and executed along with his former chief and patron Lavrentiy Beria.
As a result of Beria's Amnesty of 1953, a large numbers of criminals were released and pardoned.Upon release they quickly began to form gangs, committing robberies, murders, and rapes nationwide: Many places in the USSR were subject to rampant criminality and looting at the hands of now fully-pardoned inmates.