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...that it was only by accident that he was not hired by the secret police when their recruiters came to the university. "I was a fully qualified executioner," he writes. "If I had gotten into NKVD school under Yezhov,* maybe I would have matured just in time to serve Beria...
...Nikolai Yezhov, head of the secret police from 1936 to 1938; he was replaced by Lavrenty Beria...
...Athens, a city where "everybody knows everybody else," almost everybody has heard of Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis (pronounced Ee-o-ahn-ee-dis). A spectral, Beria-like figure who commands Greece's military police force-the feared ESA-loannidis was not seen by the public even at the swearing-in ceremony of Phaedon Gizikis, the colorless army general who is Greece's new President. He did not really have to, since it is loannidis and not Gizikis who runs the junta...
...against the invading Nazis in 1941, three years later became the first Soviet army commander to penetrate German territory. Equally adept at political infighting, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev after the war and in 1953 presided over the tribunal that sentenced Stalin's Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria to death. Khrushchev appointed Konev commander of the Warsaw Pact armies, then, in 1961, shifted him to Berlin to take charge of Soviet forces during the building of the Berlin Wall...
Sales trips follow, with Sasounian sowing sample teeth and producing angry instant hoplites, to the delight or dismay of the likes of Stalin and Beria, Ben-Gurion, Nasser, SHAPE Commander General Alfred Gruenther in Paris, and Dwight David Eisenhower, who watches the demonstration on a quiet corner of the White House lawn...