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The police state marching west across Europe, south across Asia, was embodied in the person of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union (he never fired a shot), Hero of Socialist ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among Stalin’s inner circle following the demise of the man who had led the USSR for nearly three decades. Khrushchev, emerging as a key player ...

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But as Minister of Public Security in the National People’s Congress (i.e., legislature), Lo has modeled his machine on the Soviet MVD and become the nearest Chinese equivalent to a Beria.

By Ruben Mirzakhanyan The infamous plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia in 1937 is a ...

On March 5, 1940 - Members of the Soviet Politburo of the CPSU issued an order for the execution of 25,000 Polish intellectuals, including 17,500 prisoners of war. On March 2, 1940, Lavrenty Beria - ...

the book was undermined by her blaming Lavrenti Beria (who had dandled her on his knee) for leading Stalin astray. In Tbilisi the Georgians’ disapproval of her impetuous return and decision to subject ...