An ethnic Georgian, Beria enlisted in the Cheka in 1920, and quickly rose through its ranks. He transferred to Communist Party work in the Caucasus in the 1930s, and in 1938 was appointed head …

Dec 19, 2025 · Lavrenty Beria, director of the Soviet secret police who played a major role in the purges of Joseph Stalin’s opponents. After Stalin’s death, Beria apparently attempted to succeed him as …

Just like his boss Joseph Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria (1899 – 1953) was born and bred in Georgia. An ethnic Mingrelian (a small nation closely-related to Georgians), during the Russian Civil War...

Dec 12, 2003 · Beria, who went on to run the Soviet network of slave-labour camps, was notorious for his sadistic enjoyment of torture and his taste for beating and raping women and violating young …

Soviet political figure under Joseph Stalin and head of the Soviet secret police. Born to a poor peasant family in 1899, Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria was, like Joseph Stalin, a Georgian by nationality.

Stalin appointed Beria, notorious for his effective management abilities, to head the Soviet atomic bomb project on August 7, 1945, the day after the US detonated the “Little Boy” uranium bomb over …

Lavrentiy Beria, a name synonymous with brutality and terror, played a pivotal role in one of the darkest periods of Soviet history. As the chief enforcer of Joseph Stalin’s regime, Lavrentiy Beria’s actions …

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; March 29, 1899 – December 23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police …

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Pavlovich and the family name is Beria.

Jan 19, 2025 · Beria, not impeded in any way by professional knowledge or sense of reality, frequently meddled in military affairs and intelligence; often with disastrous consequences.