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With Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union, were sentenced six of his top-ranking MVD generals and ex-ministers: Merkulov, Dekanozov, Kobulov, Goglidze, Meshik and Vlodzimirsky. On Dec. 23, 1953, said the Kremlin, all seven men were taken out and shot...
...precedent and by the measure of closeness of association with Beria and his gang, the next victims might well be Anastas Mikoyan, 58, the Armenian Minister of Internal Trade, and possibly Vyacheslav Molotov. Mikoyan brought Beria, "the worst enemy of the motherland," into the party fold. Molotov promoted Dekanozov, "an archtraitor...
VLADIMIR G. DEKANOZOV, minister of the interior in Georgia and Soviet Ambassador to Berlin in the heyday of the Nazi-Soviet alliance...
...national" constitution was ditched overnight, the President and his staff were fired. Adventurist Rukhadze's Ministry of State Security-the agency most at fault for accusing the "innocents" and showing up Beria-was merged with Interior under a new Beria protege: Vladimir G. Dekanozov. To head the government, Beria chose Valerian Bakradze, who was removed as Premier in the purges of '37; Bakradze proved his loyalty by restoring the three Beria men purged by Stalin last year-Baramiya, Zodelava and Rapava. "They were always loyal to Soviet society," said Bakradze, and gave them jobs in his cabinet...
...Central Committee members pushed in to fill the vacant posts bore names which stood for principles rather than individuals. One was V. G. Dekanozov, onetime Deputy Foreign Commissar, who went to Berlin with Commissar Molotov three months ago, stayed on as ambassador. Another was Otto Kuusinen, head of the abortive Finnish People's Government during the Russo-Finnish war, elected president of the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic after his 1939 coup flopped...