Word: beria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indignant letter to the Worker ran: "[You] have followed successive flip-flops with amazing jolt-proof gymnastic dexterity, without ever being at a loss for editorial words. The doctors were plotting, the doctors were not; Beria was in, Beria was out; Tito was out, Tito was in; Yugoslavia was a dictatorship with ruthless suppression of opposition, Yugoslavia is finding its independent path to socialism; Stalin is up, Stalin is down . . . The Daily Worker editors had carved out a position even more unassailable than the Soviet leaders have claimed for them selves. The Soviet leaders admitted to previous mistakes. The Daily...
Even concerning the police aspects of the regime, the average person felt unperturbed, since he rarely came into contact with them. Everyone--even the intellectuals--felt there had been a definite change for the better since the death of Stalin and the sudden departure of Beria. The simple and naive admit that the system was "bad." They felt on the whole that the injustices committed were "accidental," according to Malia. The more intelligent also admitted the system was bad, but they blamed Stalin...
...still keeps much of the secret political and party control apparatus in his own hands. But as Minister of Public Security in the National People's Congress (i.e., legislature), Lo has modeled his machine on the Soviet MVD and become the nearest Chinese equivalent to a Beria...
...Rising Deputy. When Stalin split the unwieldy Soviet security apparatus into two branches, Kruglov became MVD boss, controlling a crack security army of a million men. His deputy: Colonel Ivan Serov. After Stalin's death. Internal Affairs Minister Beria began liquidating top security bosses, but before he had gone far-or far enough-he was himself arrested. The day of Beria's arrest. Kruglov's troops blocked all exits and entrances to Moscow, froze the city tight. The same day, Premier Malenkov named Kruglov Minister of Internal Affairs in place of Beria...
...Serov was a natural for the MVD. He was made Kruglov's deputy, got a third Order of Lenin for whipping his slaves into completing the Volga-Don canal. But after Stalin's death, his membership in MVD and not in MGB probably saved his life. The Beria liquidation process carried off the entire top level of the security forces. No one (outside the Kremlin) knows who actually carried out this liquidation, but two days after Aba-kumov's execution, Serov got the Red Banner of Labor, and in a few months moved into the top security...