Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of ...

The chair of the Special Committee on the atomic bomb, Lavrentii Beria, arrived in the middle of August. He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

NKVD refers to the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union, which was in place from 1934 to 1946. Beria was appointed by former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin as deputy ...