Word: beria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of those questioned felt that Russia will be governed during the transition period after Stalin's death by a small group, possibly a triumvirate composed of Malenkov, Deputy Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov, and Laurenti Beria, head of the secret police...
...Jews flocked to the square in front of Moscow's Great Synagogue to cheer the Israeli Ambassador, Russian-born Mrs. Golda Myerson. Exasperated secret police promptly put the Israeli embassy under a sort of diplomatic house arrest and prevented Russian Jewry from having any dealings with it. Beria then started to climinate all remaining Jewish institutions in Russia...
Another acceptable theory has it that the rise of Gregor Malenkov is also reflected in the Purges. Many of the convicted deviationists were old guard Party members and carried potential opposition to Malenkov's struggle for Stalin's inheritance. There is also some evidence that Malenkov, not Beria, ordered the arrest of the accused Moscow doctors. It nows seems that the Kremlin has made an irrevocable decision to finish another task that Hitler started. There are 2,500,000 Soviet Jews...
...doctors. Official newspapers pointed the accusing finger at "the organs of state security" and the bosses of the Ministry of Health for "gullibility and carelessness," for failing to detect the "plot" in time. Many Western observers leaped to the conclusion that the criticism hinted at trouble for Politburocrat Lavrenty Beria, longtime boss of the secret police system; but this is premature. On the very night the "plot" was disclosed, Stalin appeared at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. With him, in we-hang-to-gether fashion, were Malenkov, Molotov, Voroshilov, Khrushchev-and Beria...
...given unfettered authority to discipline 6,880,000 members of the Russian Communist Party, and to weld together even more tightly the parallel monoliths of party and state. Wielding such power, Khrushchev has taken his place in the Kremlin's anteroom alongside Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov and Lavrenty Beria...