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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 ...
A close associate of Lavrentiy Beria and known for his cruelty during interrogations, Vlodzimirsky was arrested and executed on accounts of treason alongside Beria and his close allies in 1953. Biography
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 ...
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]
1953 was a common year ... December 23 – The Soviet Union announces officially that Lavrentiy Beria has been executed. December 24 – Tangiwai disaster: ...
In July 1953, after Beria was arrested, Merkulov was summoned by Nikita Khrushchev, the new head of the communist party, and ordered to write a report on his links with Beria. He wrote a long letter denouncing Beria as an ambitious schemer, but claiming that despite having known him for 30 years, Merkulov had only now realised that he was a ...
In 1953, the three architects of the deportation perished: shortly after Stalin died on 5 March, Beria and Kobulov were arrested on 27 June 1953. They were convicted on multiple charges, sentenced to death and executed on 23 December 1953. [100]
After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. However the central figure in the immediate post-Stalin period was the former head of the state security apparatus, Lavrentiy Beria.