Word: beria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since the first week, when he made the key funeral speech, was proclaimed Premier and was shown snuggled up to Stalin and Mao in a doctored photograph, he has been neither seen nor heard from. China's Chou En-lai proposed the Korean talks and Molotov seconded them. Beria publicly redressed the "error" of the doctors' purges. Voroshilov announced the price cuts. Such popular gestures are the kind that might be presumed useful in building up Malenkov as the first among his peers and the benign father of all the Russias. Perhaps they add up to an essentially...
Last week the nine "fiends"-and six others whose names had not been mentioned before-were taken from their cells, not for execution but for release as free men. "It has been established," said a communiqué from Deputy Premier Lavrenty Beria, "that the accused . . . were arrested . . . without any lawful cause whatsoever . . . The accusations made against [them] are false . . . [Their confessions were elicited by the investigators] using impermissible means . . . which are strictly forbidden under Soviet law." On the recommendation of Beria's Ministry of Internal Affairs, "the arrested . . . have been completely rehabilitated . . . and freed from custody...
Malenkov, Beria, Molotov-the men who rule Russia today-were all at Stalin's side on the night the "plot" was disclosed. Why had they now reversed themselves...
Police Chief Beria has a similar selfish motive. When Stalin's Kremlin first unmasked the "doctor assassins" three months ago, the "organs of state security" (i.e., the secret police) were condemned for "laxity." Beria, at the time, was not formally in charge of the secret police, but the charges did seem to reflect on his competence. Now that he has emerged as a Deputy Premier, with absolute control over both internal affairs and secret police, Beria may be determined to destroy those who slurred...
...Beria, not Malenkov, who announced that the accused doctors were innocent victims of false persecution. It was he who deposed and then arrested the former Deputy Minister of State Security -a man named Ryumin-as "a secret enemy of our state" who had attempted to kindle in the Soviet people "feelings of national hostility" (i.e., anti-Semitism). But the principal fall guy is Semyon D. Ignatiev, Stalin's last Minister of State Security, and a bureaucrat who was elevated shortly after Stalin's death to one of the five secretariat seats on the party's powerful Central...