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...started life as a tailor. He became a Communist when still in his teens. He looks a perfect police chief-burly and iron-jawed, with eyes as cold and muddy as the Danube River in winter. In 1939 he was in Moscow, taking lessons in police administration from Lavrenty Beria. Rankovic is the most intensely hated man in Yugoslavia...
...Lavrenty Beria, Politburo member, studied engineering, is now boss of the Soviet secret police and head of Russia's atomic research program...
...display window. The display consisted of some 200 portraits of assorted world notables, all taken from the covers of TIME. In the center, in large letters, was writ ten: "Who Are They?" Britain's Princess Margaret was there, side by side with Russia's Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, Hollywood's Gregory Peck, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, and the theater's redoubtable Tallulah Bankhead. At week's end, one of the 200 faces had been changed. The features of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary had been replaced by those of Radio Comic Fred Allen...
...note charged these atrocities to the personal account of Yugoslav Interior Minister Alexander Rankovic, who spent part of 1946 in Moscow learning his business from Soviet Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria...
Anders spent more than a year in Lubianka, much of the time in solitary confinement under an electric lamp so powerful that it nearly made him blind. Then, suddenly, he was summoned before NKVD Chief Lavrenti Beria, who informed him that Germany had attacked Russia, and that Anders had been "elected" commander of all Poles in the U.S.S.R...