Word: beria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia, Berliners said, Stalin was celebrating "politeness week," and had called all Muscovites together in Red Square to tell them about it. Suddenly, in the midst of his speech, a sneeze was heard. "Who sneezed?" asked the dictator. No one answered. "Very well," said Stalin to Secret Police Chief Beria, "shoot everyone in the first row." When that was done the dictator asked again: "Who sneezed?" No answer. "Shoot everyone in the second row." Finally, when the smell of gunpowder had drifted away a second time, a timid character rose diffidently in the third row. "C-c-c-omrade Stalin...
...draped coffin rode on a caisson pulled by six jet-black, white-harnessed horses. Zhdanov's mustached, lifeless face was green in the glittering sunlight. Beside the caisson walked Stalin, with Molotov on his right; and behind Stalin, youngish (47), tough Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, with Police Boss Lavrenty Beria on his right...
...that? Over his shoulder looks Alexander Rankovic, head of Tito's OZNA, considered by many as the most efficient secret police force in the world. The OZNA was created Jan. 11, 1946. Rankovic spent January, February and March of that year in Moscow learning his business from Lavrenty Beria, head of the Soviet secret police, on which the OZNA is modeled...
...replace Gromyko at the U.N., the Kremlin named: 1. Molotov. 2. Malik. 3. Kravchenko. 4. Beria. 5. Voznesensky...
...strangulation is advancing steadily, but it is a slow process. Terror is a faster weapon. While Russian propaganda screams that U.S. forces have kidnaped 40,000 Berliners, while it warns in black newspaper headlines BERLIN IS NOT CHICAGO, the MVD proves its mastery of the arts of Capone and Beria. Warning phone calls, threatening letters, shadowing agents are merely the trivial daily nuisances that plague anti-Reds. The MVD's serious work is executed in a garish, blue-grey house on the Kupfergraben through which hundreds of Berliners have passed, to be recorded as "disappearances...