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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 ...
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.
On 23 December 1953 he was sentenced by the Special court presence (Russian: Специальное судебное присутствие, Spetsialnoye sudebnoye prisutstvie) of the Supreme Court of USSR to "VMN" (i.e. capital punishment) on the "case of Beria's gang". Meshyk was executed by shooting. He was stripped of all awards and titles. [1]
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...