Lavrenti
BeriaFounder of USSR Jewish Anti-Fascist League
Director of the Dreaded KGB
Killed Millions of Innocent Citizens
Kidnapped, Raped, and Murdered Young Girls for Sex in his Lubyanka
Prison Office
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Lavrenti Beria |
Lavrenti Beria
Source:
Jewish Russian Communists
Beria was Stalin's party associate and confidante from their native
Georgia. In 1938 he was put in charge of the dreaded NKVD. Beria was
responsible for the infamous Katyn massacre of captive Polish soldiers and
intellectuals. Beria was also in charge of the Gulag prison system that
sent millions to oblivion. Beria was noted for having his bodyguards
kidnap young schoolgirls so that he could rape them in his Lubyanka
office, which doubled as a torture chamber.
Lavrenti Beria
Source:
Wikipedia
Beria, as a fellow Georgian, was an early ally of Joseph Stalin in his
rise to power within the Communist Party and the Soviet regime. Disputed,
Beria was not introduced to Stalin until 1926, and worked hard to further
his own cause by wooing Stalin to get into the inner circles of the Soviet
regime; and he was hardly an "ally", more that of a henchman. In 1924 he
led the repression of nationalist disturbances in Tbilisi, after which it
is said that up to 5,000 people were executed. For this display of
"Bolshevik ruthlessness" Beria was appointed head of the "secret-political
division" of the Transcaucasian OGPU and was awarded the Order of the Red
Banner. In 1926 he became head of the Georgian OGPU. He was appointed
Party Secretary in Georgia in 1931, and for the whole Transcaucasian
region in 1932. He became a member of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party in 1934. Even after moving on from Georgia, he continued
to effectively control the republic's Communist Party until it was purged
in July 1953. By 1935 Beria was one of Stalin's most trusted subordinates.
He cemented his place in Stalin's entourage with a lengthy oration "On the
History of the Bolshevik Organisations in Transcaucasia" (later published
as a book), which rewrote the history of Transcaucasian Bolshevism to show
that Stalin had been its sole leader from the beginning. When Stalin's
purge of the Communist Party and government began in 1934 after the
assassination of Sergei Kirov, Beria ran the purges in Transcaucasia,
using the opportunity to settle many old scores in the politically
turbulent Transcaucasian republics. In June 1937 he said in a speech: "Let
our enemies know that anyone who attempts to raise a hand against the will
of our people, against the will of the party of Lenin and Stalin, will be
mercilessly crushed and destroyed".
Lavrenti Beria
Source:
PBS
Beria was born in the Georgian town of Mingrelia just before the turn of
the century in 1899. His first career choice was to be an architect, and
he worked as a building inspector in Azerbaijan after graduating from
college. He later joined the Communist party and served in the secret
police. Beria first met Stalin in 1931 while Stalin was on vacation. One
popular story claims that Beria saved Stalin from an assassination
attempt. Others suspect Beria staged the attempt he appeared to thwart.
Stalin quickly brought Beria up through the ranks of the Communist party,
and selected him to head the NKVD in 1938. Stalin used Beria to stage his
purges. Under Beria, the NKVD was responsible for the deaths of millions
of Russians. Beria had the reputation of getting things done, no matter
what it cost. Stalin placed him in charge of many of his most important
jobs, including the atomic bomb project. After Stalin died, Beria tried to
change his public image and initiated reform in the Soviet Union and
Communist Germany. However, Krushchev and the other Soviet leaders
arranged to have Beria imprisoned and later executed as an enemy of the
state.
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