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Western observers are uncertain whether Wang is emerging as a Chinese version of Lavrenti Beria, the Soviet security chief who rose to power under Stalin and was later executed. But Wang surely has the potential. From his tightly guarded headquarters in Fragrant Hill Park, a sprawling, tree-lined compound of antenna-covered villas and underground facilities about a half-hour drive from downtown Peking, Wang runs the Chinese equivalents of the U.S.'s FBI, Secret Service and CIA. His path to Fragrant Hill began early in the 1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting...
...counterattack 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...
...Kiev. Because of his skill in blending party line with plot, Korneichuk won five Stalin Prizes and a number of political appointments during the 1930s and '40s. After Stalin's death, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev and in 1955 attacked the fallen secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, in a play called Wings. It marked the start of Khrushchev's public assault on Stalinism. Korneichuk also survived Khrushchev's ouster, serving the present regime in a variety of cultural-political assignments...
...cruelty of the character, the very unfunny blood-lust of a hired killer, can easily be seen through the thin veil of caricature . Baker's talent, too, comes across in the contrast between his major role and one of his bit parts. As Grusha's hen-pecked brother Lavrenti, he offers a spiritual (at the least) eunuch as pathetic as any I've seen...
Fear of the forces of the then powerful Lavrenti Beria may have forced Malenkov to grant concessions to Nikita S. Khrushcev and make him the Party Secretary in 1952, the expert said, asking that his name and position here not be revealed. The Party leader controls the coterie of Party Secretaries, the central Party machinery, and the important appointment process. The professor speculated that in 1953, Malenkov, fearing Berla, may have taken his chance with Khrushchev, hoping to control some power in the Party machinery through contacts with his old friends. Apparently, however, Malenkov was outmaneuvered, and Krushchev was able...