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    ˈbʲerʲɪjə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია, romanized: lavrent'i beria, IPA: [ˈɫavɾentʼi ˈbeɾia]; 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian...
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    targeted by Beria as a leader with his own power base and an obstacle to Beria's consolidation of power over the Transcaucasian republics. Beria replaced...
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  • The Death of Stalin (category Cultural depictions of Lavrentiy Beria)
    Nikita Khrushchev, 1st Secretary Moscow Committee Simon Russell Beale as Lavrenti Beria, Head of NKVD Security Forces Paddy Considine as Andreyev, director...
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    In accordance with Stalinist procedure and supervised by NKVD Chief Lavrenti Beria, it was the utmost priority to produce enough weapons-grade material...
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    either for being an intellectual or for competing for a woman with Lavrenti Beria, chief of the secret police to Joseph Stalin. "George Eliava". Archived...
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  • Union, and in 1945, he was joined by his intelligence and police chief Lavrenti Beria. These non-military Marshals were joined in 1947 by politician Nikolai...
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    Stalin. Yet Charkviani's promotion was met with strong resistance from Lavrenti Beria, who had been planning to find a replacement for this position amongst...
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  • Armenian church destroyed during the Soviet period by the orders of Lavrenti Beria. Most of the cemetery's gravestones and monuments were also destroyed...
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    Martvili-Bandza Abasha Mingrelian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lavrenti Beria, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's chief of secret police Konstantine Gamsakhurdia...
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    of the Cold War revealed that the head of the Soviet atomic project, Lavrenti Beria, did not entirely trust either his intelligence sources, nor his own...
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    ISBN 978-0-375-76124-9. On February 28, 1945, the NKVD submitted to Lavrenti Beria a comprehensive report on nuclear weaponry, including implosion research...
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  • Stalin's death, the Doctors' Plot was exposed as a fabrication, and Lavrenti Beria, who had regained control of the security services, offered Shvartzman...
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    the Soviet Union at the time. Private baths and dachas of Stalin and Lavrenti Beria are still kept in the city. The mineral water flows directly into Buildings...
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    Yezhov was removed as the head of the NKVD, to be replaced by Lavrentiy Beria, a man totally devoted to Stalin. Yezhov was arrested in April 1939 and...
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    he was in charge of the construction works at Norillag. A protégé of Lavrenti Beria, Zavenyagin survived the purge after the death of Joseph Stalin because...
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    Pishevari, the latter of which was proclaimed in Tabriz in October1945. Lavrenti Beria was nominally in charge of the operation, but delegated it to Mir Jafar...
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    Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0-7146-4992-9. In one estimate, based on a report by Lavrenti Beria to Joseph Stalin, 150,000 of 478,479 deported Ingush and Chechen people...
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    himself. Following the fall of NKVD head Nikolai Yezhov, the new chief Lavrenti Beria chose to retry Korolev on reduced charges in 1939; but by that time...
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  • Nestor Lakoba (d. 1936), Abkhaz Communist leader; poisoned by NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria Abram Slutsky (d.1938), head of Soviet spy service; poisoned with hydrogen...
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    Soviet secret police, Cheka, with recently appointed Deputy Chief Lavrentiy Beria playing a leading role, managed to penetrate the organization and carried...
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  • newsroom in New York! According to an announcement from Moscow radio, Lavrenti Beria, former head of the Soviet secret police, has just been executed! We...
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  • House. 134. "Lavrenti Kutuzov" combines the names of two well-known characters in Russian and Soviet history: The first name of Lavrenti Beria, the Chief...
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    Georgianisation of Abkhazia that culminated during the rule of Joseph Stalin and Lavrenti Beria. So in his official speeches, Bagapsh often added the Gali Georgians...
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    Reich's gravesite. Her Moscow apartment was given to the chauffeur of Lavrenti Beria who had just become head of the NKVD. Since the end of the Soviet Union...
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    were also nicknamed "Candy Bombers". With Stalin dead, the KGB chief Lavrenti Beria jockeyed for power in the Kremlin, putting forth the goal of German...
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    secret police, or StB, in obedience to a direct order from KGB chief Lavrenti Beria, arrested Field in Prague. Field was then handed over to the Hungarian...
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    War II in an act of ethnic cleansing on the orders of the NKVD leader Lavrenti Beria. They were only allowed to return when the deportation order was lifted...
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    the action after the death of Joseph Stalin and the fall of MVD chief Lavrenti Beria, but before Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 "secret speech" denouncing aspects...
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    exiled to Siberia. During the 1937 Great Purges, he was summoned by Lavrenti Beria to Tbilisi to be interrogated as a "politically unreliable person"....
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  • among Soviet and Chinese leaders, including Mao Zedong. A report to Lavrenti Beria, head of Soviet intelligence, for example, stated: "False plague regions...
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