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Mar 17, 1899 Merkheuli, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Georgia Died on 23 Dec 1953 (aged 54)
Georgian Soviet NKVD police chief under Stalin
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About Lavrentiy Beria
- Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; Russian: ?????´???? ??´?????? ??´???, IPA: ['b?er?i?]; Georgian: ???????? ?????? ?? ?????, translit.: lavrent'i p'avles dze beria, IPA: [b?ri?]; 29 March [O.S.
- 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941.
- He later officially joined the Politburo in 1946. Beria was the longest-lived and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after World War II.
- Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 he was responsible for organizing the Katyn massacre.
- He simultaneously administered vast sections of the Soviet state and acted as the de facto Marshal of the Soviet Union in command of NKVD field units responsible for barrier troops and Soviet partisan intelligence and sabotage operations on the Eastern Front during World War II.
- Beria administered the vast expansion of the Gulag labor camps and was primarily responsible for overseeing the secret detention facilities for scientists and engineers known as sharashkas. He attended the Yalta Conference with Stalin, who introduced him to U.S.
- President Franklin D.
- Roosevelt as "our Himmler".
- After the war, he organized the Communist takeover of the state institutions in Central Europe and Eastern Europe and political repressions in these countries.
- Beria's uncompromising ruthlessness in his duties and skill at producing results culminated in his success in overseeing the Soviet atomic bomb project.
- Stalin gave it absolute priority and the project was completed in under five years.After Stalin's death in March 1953, Lavrentiy Beria became First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union and head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
- In this dual capacity, he formed a troika alongside Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov that briefly led the country in Stalin's place.
- However, in a coup d'état launched by Nikita Khrushchev with help from Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov in June 1953, Beria was ultimately removed from power and subsequently arrested on charges of 357 counts of rape and treason.
- He was sentenced to death and was executed by Pavel Batitsky on December 23, 1953.
