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...Lavrenti Beria, 46, chief of the secret police (N.K.V.D.), is a civilian. Stalin went out of his way to make Beria a Marshal of the Soviet Union last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Heirs | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...five-man committee to direct the rehabilitation of the regained soil; ordered the return of 571,500 head of evacuated cattle, horses, sheep. The committee's head is plump Georgi Malenkov, one of Stalin's ablest trouble shooters. Among the members is the professorial-looking Georgian, Lavrenti Beria, chief of NKVD (formerly OGPU...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bread,Toil and Victory | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Lavrenti Beria - "scholarly-looking, soft-spoken . . . who looks like a physician but whose innocent-sounding title. Commissar for Internal Affairs, means that he is the head of the NKVD [ex-Ogpu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun in War | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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