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2 days ago · On orders from Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the NKVD, the entire Chechen and Ingush population of the Checheno-Ingush ASSR were to be deported by freight trains to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
2 days ago · When Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Stalin and subsequently head of the NKVD, further pressured Iashvili with the alternatives of denouncing Tabidze or being arrested and tortured by the NKVD, Iashvili killed himself.
3 days ago · Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev [b] [c] (15 April [ O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
1 day ago · In 1947, Stalin’s secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria also chose an allegedly “uninhabited” area in eastern Kazakhstan as the primary testing ground for the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons — despite its proximity to the historic city of Semipalatinsk (now Semey).
2 days ago · His landmark decisions in foreign policy and domestic programs markedly changed the direction of the Soviet Union, bringing détente with the West and a relaxation of rigid controls within the country. Khrushchev, who rose under Stalin as an agricultural specialist, was a Russian who had grown up in Ukraine.
2 days ago · Henrettelsen af Lavrentiy Beria. Den sovjetiske indenrigsminister får ikke mange måneder på posten, før han bliver udstødt af den kommunistiske ledelse og med al hast bliver henrettet. Beria havde i mange år inden stået for den interne sikkerhed i Sovjetunionen og været Stalins loyale morder, når både rigtige og indbildte fjender at ...
1 day ago · Stalin's demise led to significant political purges and paranoia. Key figures like Lavrentiy Beria and Nikita Khrushchev played pivotal roles in the ensuing turmoil. The film exaggerates some characters' actions for comedic value. For instance, Beria's cruelty is highlighted, but his political machinations were far more complex.
