Word: beria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congratulations for your brilliant cover story on Russian Police Boss Beria [TIME, March...
...Prison Is a Prison." Beria, of course, has an office in the Kremlin; but he does most of his work in Lyubyanka Prison,* not very far from the tomb of Lenin, who said he would make a state without crime, police or prisons. In the old hopeful days it was called the "Soviet Home for Those Who Have Lost Their Freedom." These days, it is frankly known as Lyubyanka Prison, for, as an eminent Soviet journal wrote in a campaign against squeamishness: "A prison is a prison." On his rare public appearances with other Soviet big shots, Beria usually seeks...
...Brief Glow. The horrors of Beria's camps and inquisitions have been told by David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky, by Victor Kravchenko and Vladimir Tchernavin. These atrocities are so vast that, like Himmler's corpse factories, they are almost unbelievable. Meanwhile, a smaller, gentler story gives a notion of life in the police state...
...society decays or falters or listens to fools, and destroys what is left. Patriots like Nikola Petkoff in Bulgaria are shot. Compromisers like Jan Masaryk are driven (by Communist hands or their own despair) through windows. Men like Talich, who can express what the people feel, are silenced. Beria's march will continue until the brains, the dollars, the power, and a reawakened moral force of the West stop...
...everyone in the democracies is worried by Lavrenty Beria; last week when President Truman declared he did not want to see Communists in the Chinese government or any other government, Henry Wallace called that wish "utter folly and hypocrisy...