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Stalin and Lavrenty Beria. Last week Police Chief Beria, the home-town boy, was back in Tiflis (pop. 520,000), capital of Georgia, to undo a purge that rivaled the bizarre fantasy of the Soviet doctors...
...this time "in Stalin's manner," as Radio Tiflis neatly put it. Nearly every ranking Communist in the Georgian Soviet lost his job for fostering "bourgeois nationalism," including three top officials-Baramiya, Zodelava and Rapava. The Politburocrat responsible for Georgian affairs was obviously in trouble. He was Lavrenty Beria, and in proof of his displeasure, Stalin forced the police chief personally to lead the purge of the very Georgian leaders whom he himself had appointed. Now, having outlived his old master, Beria was having his revenge...
...victims (Beria's protegés) were "innocent workers" falsely accused by "adventurists" who "cooked up repulsive materials ... to do harm to the Communist Party." The chief adventurist was one I. A. Rukhadze, former Minister of [Georgian] State Security, and, according to Radio Tiflis, "an enemy of the people . . . with inimical careerist interests." "By all kinds of intrigues," the announcement went on, Rukhadze "tried to arouse a feeling of national enmity" between Georgians and Great Russians. He was aided by A. I. Mgeladze, boss of the Georgian Communist Party, and Premier Z. Ketskhoveli-the men whom Stalin promoted only...
...this interpretation, or a substantial part of it, is correct, it helps explain why 1) the doctors' purge was called off by Beria with such violent emphasis on false charges and "impermissible means" of extracting confessions; 2) why the glorification of Stalin's name has abruptly declined in Russian papers; 3) why Russia is so anxious for a relaxing peace offensive. Old Fox. In the clash of bigger battalions fighting for naked power, cunning old Aunty Molly-though nominally one of the Big Three-is not one to get in the way. "You don't seize power...
British officialdom believes that Molotov will be the Lepidus to Malenkov's Antony and Beria's Octavian. "It's as though he has been thrown across the gap between the old and the new regime, like a Bailey bridge. While Molotov's got a use, they'll use him. But once they've got their feet firmly planted on the other bank, the bridge will be discarded...