Word: beria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usually at banquets, he talked earnestly with his neighbor and apparent close friend, bald, pince-nezed Lavrenty Beria, boss of the Soviet police. Obese, agate-eyed, sallow and waxy-faced, Malenkov exuded a vague menace. "If I knew I had to be tortured," said a former Western envoy to Moscow last week, "and if I were picking people from the Politburo to do the torturing, the last one I would pick would be Malenkov...
...started life as a tailor. He became a Communist when still in his teens. He looks a perfect police chief-burly and iron-jawed, with eyes as cold and muddy as the Danube River in winter. In 1939 he was in Moscow, taking lessons in police administration from Lavrenty Beria. Rankovic is the most intensely hated man in Yugoslavia...
...Lavrenty Beria, Politburo member, studied engineering, is now boss of the Soviet secret police and head of Russia's atomic research program...