Original: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (or Beriya;;; 29 March 1899 â "23 December 1953) was a Georgian Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin.
Simplified: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (also spelled Lavrenty Beria) (29 March 1899 - 23 December 1953) was the leader of the secret police of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin's regime.