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...Lubianka prison on July 17, 1947, nearly ten years ago. His arrest and detention, they said, were undoubtedly the result of "the criminal activities" of then State Security Chief Viktor Abakumov, who was executed in 1954 for "crimes against Soviet laws" as an accomplice of his boss, Lavrenty Beria. There was, the Russians said, a report to Abakumov from Colonel A. L. Smoltsov, chief of the Lubianka medical service, certifying Wallenberg's death, and adding that the body had been ordered cremated without a postmortem...
...bring charges against any state employee, be he commissar or clerk. Stalin held the office years ago and used it (together with the Party Control Commission which does a corresponding job within the party apparatus) to win absolute power. Most distinguished of recent State Control Ministers: Vsevolod Merkulov, a Beria man, executed along with Beria...
...Ochab, who now has Gomulka's job as Party Secretary, announced that the charges on which Gomulka had been arrested were false. They were drummed up, said Ochab in Moscow's best voice and most up-to-date explanation of such things, by Polish accomplices of "the Beria gang." Ochab was careful to explain, however, that Gomulka's release "does not mean that the party approves of his political opinions...
...After the war Stalin became even more capricious, irritable and brutal; in particular, his suspicion grew. His persecution mania reached unbelievable dimensions . . . This un believable suspicion was cleverly taken advantage of by the abject provocateur and vile enemy Beria, who had murdered thousands of Communists and loyal Soviet people . . . The question arises . . . Why did we not do something earlier, during Stalin's life, in order to prevent the loss of innocent lives? It was because Stalin personally supervised [the purges], and the majority of the Politburo members did not at the time know all of the circumstances . . . and could...
...death, his security police are acting much as they had done under the old Dictator. In Baku, It was reported last week, ex-Premier Mikhail Bagirov and three other leaders of the Caucasian Communist Parties had been summarily executed. The charge: they had been fellow conspirators of Police Chief Beria (executed 30 months ago). A more likely reason: Khrushchev & Co. still need scapegoats...