Word: beria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real Stage. Foreign comment, even in the Communist press, measured the event in terms of its possible effect on foreign policy; but the real stage and the most important audience was the Soviet Union. The reason for the delay in announcing Beria's arrest was soon apparent: the masses had to be prepared. Mass meetings were now being held throughout the Soviet Union. Pravda in hand, party workers and activists were haranguing the workers and peasants. Lesser party members quickly picked up the line. Said the director of Moscow's Hammer & Sickle factory: "We . . . demand that the severe...
...stint, had a more realistic picture of Russian feeling: "It is as clear as the face on the Kremlin clock that throughout the Communist world tonight party members from the highest to the lowest feel the terrible hand of political terror clutching at their necks. The enormity of Mr. Beria's disgrace is an inescapable reminder that, but for fate, they might be sitting where...
Where was Beria sitting? Said Gilmore: "Unless the formula has been changed, Beria, high chieftain of the Soviet secret police, sits in one of his own cells in Lubianka prison . . . Oddly enough, that is where Mr. Beria has his own office. I have seen him entering and leaving many times. He would get out of his black car and, with policemen on either side and others leading the way and bringing up the rear, disappear into the depths of the place." Where were Beria's bodyguards on June 27? Was he indeed still alive? What was the meaning...
Grand Guignol. Joseph Stalin had no friends, but there were always sycophants around him, and the longest-lived of all of them was Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. Like Stalin, Beria was born in the Transcaucasian state of Georgia. The record says that he came of a poor peasant family in the Sukhum region. At 18, he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic (Bolshevik) Party. He worked underground, was jailed by the post-Czarist government of Azerbaijan, released on the plea of Russian Ambassador Kirov, after which he joined the Cheka (secret police) and took an active part in overthrowing...
...many details, Beria's official origins run parallel with those of Stalin, a coincidence historians regard with suspicion, for it was as a faker of history that Beria first came to Stalin's favorable notice. In 1935, Beria wrote a pamphlet glorifying Stalin as the hero of the Bolshevik struggle in Transcaucasia. False in almost all of its particulars, it made Stalin a hero without fear and without reproach, provided many phony arguments against Trotsky and other factions opposed to Stalin's extension of personal power...