Word: beria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest and costliest purge to date, for which he provided the evidence, the victims and the executioners. Last week a small, back-page notice in Izvestia informed Russians that Comrade Yezhov had been relieved of his post at his own request, would be superseded by Laurentius Pavlovich Beria, until last summer head of the political police in the Transcaucasus, since then Yezhov's assistant...
Unlike Nikolai Yezhov, who is small, saturnine, mysterious and narrowly intelligent, new Commissar Beria is tall, heavyset, fond of speechmaking and public appearances. Not so uncouth as his predecessor, Laurentius Beria, despite a more polished exterior and pince-nez, can be just as bloodthirsty and relentless, has been a professional man hunter since his first assignment to the Cheka soon after the Bolshevik Revolution...
...Georgian peasant like Stalin, Beria in 1917, when still a student joined the Georgian Communist Party, then presided over by Stalin. Until last summer all his work was in the Transcaucasian republics, especially Georgia, where he headed the secret police for 16 years. He is known as the "Stalin of the Caucasus." Now 39, he is one of several younger officials recently given high government posts which the oft-purged older generation of Bolsheviks is apparently either incompetent or afraid to fill...
After their big monoplane Trait d'Union ("Hyphen") crashed in the forests of Si- beria two months ago (TIME, July 27), Pilots Joseph Marie Lebrix and Marcel Doret, with Mechanic Rene Mesmin, dragged themselves back to Paris. Their escape from death had been almost a miracle. Nevertheless they prevailed upon their backer, Perfumer Francois Coty, to give them another plane just like the wrecked one for a second try at a Paris-Tokyo nonstop flight. Such a flight, 6,032-mi., would retrieve for France the distance record which Boardman & Polando had just wrested away by flying...