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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria [a] (29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War.
It was declared by the March 27, 1953 Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on the Amnesty. [1] [2] Since it was signed by Kliment Voroshilov, it was initially known as the Voroshilov's amnesty. [1] Later it has become known as Beria's amnesty, because it was initiated by March 26, 1953 Lavrenty Beria's draft. [3]
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.
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.
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 ...
A 1943 photo by Polish Red Cross showing an exumed mass grave with victims of the Katyn massacre. The Katyn massacre in Russia. With Stalin's approval, NKVD chief Lavrenty Beria issued orders to shoot 25,700 Polish "nationalists and counter-revolutionaries", Poles held captive in a number of internment camps in western Russia, on date.
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 ...
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.