Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lavrentiy Beria, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
State Funeral
as Self (archive footage)The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The...
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
as Self (archive footage)The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable...
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Stalin's Last Plot
as Self (archive footage)January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish...
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Velikoye proshchaniye
as uncreditedMarch 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that...
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