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Beria on Trial. In short, Malenkov was running on a platform of peace and prosperity. It was obvious that Malenkov's policy was dictated partly by internal considerations and the stresses of cold war. A reference to deposed Vice Premier Lavrenty Beria gave a passing clue to a problem...
Behind the façade of solidarity, the purge went on. Beria men were falling.
¶ Ousted in Georgia: Internal Affairs (MVD) Minister Vladimir Dekanazov, put in the job by Beria after Stalin's death, onetime Ambassador to Germany (1940-41). The purge in Beria's native Georgia was made by General Aleksei Antonov, a wartime army chief of staff.
When the Communists took over China, they thought they knew just what to do with the country's some 3,500,000 Roman Catholics: set up an "independent" (i.e., puppet) Catholic church, and switch them in. For more than a year it has been clear to the Communists that...
Then followed the succession of carefully controlled gestures of easing up: 1) an amnesty, signed by Voroshilov, for short-term prisoners; 2) foreigners held in Soviet prisons on espionage counts were released; 3) retail prices were reduced on 125 categories of consumer goods; 4) the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced...