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...BERIA'S FUNCTION...
...When Stalin said that one or another should be arrested, it was necessary to accept on faith that he was an 'enemy of the people.' Meanwhile, Beria's gang, which ran the organs of state security, outdid itself in proving the guilt of the arrested and the truth of materials which it falsified. And what proofs were offered? The confessions of the arrested, and the investigative judges accepted these 'confessions.' And how is it possible that a person confesses to crimes which he has not committed? Only in one way-because of the application...
Rakosi was naturally reluctant. He dutifully found a Beria-type scapegoat, his own ex-police chief. Peter Gabor, and blamed him for all the misunderstanding. But when Tito demanded $200 million as Yugoslavia's bill against Hungary-war reparations, damages claimed as Hungary's part in the Cominform boycott-Rakosi offered only a measly $20 million. Tito indignantly refused...
...Like Beria...
...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...