Word: beria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satellite Communist governments (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania and East Germany) joined in a defense pact, and agreed to a combined military command. The supreme commander: Russia's Marshal Konev, 57, Russia's No. 3 military leader, the man who presided over the trial that ordered Beria shot...
...Korea. Like magic, Zhukov turned up beside Molotov at a gathering in Warsaw, and again on the 1952 Moscow party Congress. But his real return to favor dates from Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, and the arrest four months later of arch-Commissar Beria. The same plenary meeting of the Central Committee which denounced Beria elevated Zhukov to full membership on the Central Committee of the Communist Party...
...months after Stalin's death, it was to the interest of all the jostling little cluster of Soviet leaders to show that there was none of what Malenkov called "panic and disarray." Some executions were inevitable. But significantly, they were all among the secret police: first Lavrenty Beria, Minister for the Interior, pulled down from his high place and shot; then Mikhail Ryumin, Deputy Minister of State Security. Last Christmas Eve it was Viktor Abakumov, former Minister of State Security, and three of his aides. All were identified with the "Beria plot" and the equally mysterious and never explained...
...well knew that who controlled the policy controlled their necks. It was necessary to their common survival to disperse the State Security apparatus, and to make common cause against anyone out front, i.e., Malenkov, to keep him from getting this last key symbol of power. In April 1954, after Beria's downfall, the Security Services were detached from the Ministry of the Interior and placed under a Committee for State Security. Committee Chairman Ivan Alexandrovich...
...Urals. Never again in Stalin's lifetime did Russia's top soldier hold a top command. But with Stalin's death, Zhukov came marching home. An uncertain new regime, needing the support of the Red army marshals, made him a Deputy Minister of Defense. After Beria's arrest, Zhukov took his seat on the Communist Central Committee. In last week's shuffle, Zhukov at last reached a position of first rank-though still lower than that of the party's watchdog of the military, Marshal Bulganin...