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  2. Lavrentiy Beria - Wikipedia

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    Beria and Joseph Stalin first met in summer 1931, when Stalin took a six-week rest in Tsqaltubo, and Beria took personal charge of his security. [12] Stalin was unimpressed by most of the local party leaders, chosen by the former Georgian party boss, Sergo Ordzhonikidze , but writing to Lazar Kaganovich in August 1932, Stalin commented that ...

  3. 1941 Red Army Purge - Wikipedia

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    The Great Purge ended in 1939. 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.

  4. Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Give me the man and I will give you the case against him

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    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]

  6. John Bolton compares Kash Patel to Soviet secret police leader

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    Beria was appointed by former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin as deputy chief of the Soviet secret police and was head of the Soviet atomic bomb project, according to the Atomic Heritage ...

  7. Death dates of victims of the Great Purge - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Stalin's purges and massacres between 1936 and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany (Great Purge) had about one million victims. This list includes some of the most prominent victims along with the date of their deaths. Except where otherwise stated, the date is that on which the individual was executed by shooting.

  8. Deportation of the Crimean Tatars - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. John Bolton compares Kash Patel to Stalin's right-hand man ...

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    Bolton's statement referenced Lavrentiy Beria, who was the head of the Soviet secret police under Stalin. Beria is one of the most infamous figures in Russian history, having organized and ...