Word: beria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were loyal to the Communist Party and the Soviet government." Among the victims named: Sergo Ordzhonikidze. "The accused took part in collecting incriminating evidence against Ordzhonikidze . . . Later, terrorist acts of violence were committed against members of [his] family and nearest friends." Motive for the murders: "The accused helped Beria hide his criminal past and his odious deception of party and government, and [destroyed] those persons who Beria feared could expose...
...cruel ritual of Soviet propaganda executions, it did not matter that Lavrenty Beria, a party official in Georgia at the time Ordzhonikidze was commissar, probably had nothing to do with his murder. The logic, so far as Russia's present rulers were concerned, was the need to keep Beria's name before the people as the man responsible for the reckless Ezhovshchina. The West could only guess what pressures inside the Soviet Union made this still necessary, 18 years later, unless it was the identity of the real murderer...
...Yugoslavs, not completely satisfied, pointed out that whereas the Russians had shot Beria, the Hungarians had merely jailed Gabor Peter. They demanded a more abject confession by Rakosi. Comrade Tito is an old hand at inflicting, as well as receiving, humiliation...
...contribution to the new atmosphere. Said he: "Today it is already clear to us all that the frictions, anomalies and accusations which poisoned the good relations between Hungary and Yugoslavia after 1948 helped no one except the enemies of peace and Socialism ..." Like the Russians, who held the dead Beria responsible for the quarrel, Rakosi blamed Hungarian Secret Police Chief Gabor Peter...
...Russians changed their minds about her again? As in Tito's case, her fall from grace had all been a mis take, the Russians had explained, perpetrated by Soviet Police Chief Lavrenty Beria. Now that Beria was executed, the Russians were correcting their error. When a reporter asked if she feared being arrested again, she replied confidently: "From the amount of scandal it caused through the rest of the world, I don't think they will do that again." Was she angry about the arrest? Oh no, she answered. "Injustices occur everywhere." If the State Department grants...