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...Lavrenti Beria's fall from the Soviet hierarchy follows the pattern of his predecessors in running Russia's secret police, Fainsod observes...
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...
...docile. They do not complain about their rulers, far less threaten them. There is no sign of any major purges. I heard a great deal of genuine, voluntary admiration for Stalin, some for Molotov and Zhdanov. But I never heard any Russian volunteer a single word of praise for Lavrenti Beria, head of the omnipresent secret police. But then few people love policemen, and Russians have less reason to love them than most...
...vacation the Politburo got into a fight. Communist Central Committee Secretary Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Communist Party Control Commission Andrei Andreiev and People's Commissar of Foreign Trade Anastas Mikoyan urged a moderate Soviet foreign policy. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenti Beria were for a more aggressive policy. Molotov had acted on this basis at the last London conference. When Stalin returned, he threw his weight on the moderate side and stressed the overwhelming importance for Russia of getting along with the U.S. and Britain at least long enough to attain a substantial...
Rare in Soviet Russia is a living ex-chief of the political police. Last week Russia had one-tough, professorial Marshal Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, 46. He stepped out as head of the N.K.V.D,, but was apparently still in Stalin's high command...