birth_date: 1899-03-29 00:00:00
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name: Lavrentiy Beria
about: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия; Georgian: ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია) was Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Stalin during World War II. He 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. At the 1945 Yalta Conference, Stalin introduced Beria to U.S. President Roosevelt as "our Himmler."Upon Stalin's death in March 1953, Beria was promoted to First Deputy Premier. He was briefly a part of the ruling "troika," but the coup d'état led by Nikita Khrushchev resulted in Beria's arrest fo Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия; Georgian: ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია) was Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Stalin during World War II. He 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. At the 1945 Yalta Conference, Stalin introduced Beria to U.S. President Roosevelt as "our Himmler."Upon Stalin's death in March 1953, Beria was promoted to First Deputy Premier. He was briefly a part of the ruling "troika," but the coup d'état led by Nikita Khrushchev resulted in Beria's arrest for treason. Six months later, on 23 December 1953, he was sentenced to death and executed, having been convicted (with no defense counsel or right of appeal) in the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on charges of treason, terrorism (for his 1941 purge of the Red Army), and counter-revolutionary activity during the Russian Civil War. ...more
death_date: 1953-12-23 00:00:00