Beria was the longest-lived and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after the war. Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, he was responsible for organising purges such as the Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers and officials. He would later also orchestrate the
A Troika was established immediately after Stalin's death, consisting of Malenkov, Beria, and Molotov, but ended when Malenkov and Molotov deceived Beria. Molotov supported the removal and later the execution of Beria on the orders of Khrushchev. The new Party Secretary, Khrushchev, soon emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union.
(As the head of secret police Lavrentiy Beria, Simon Russell Beale delivers the latter with sadistic attention to detail: “Shoot her before him, but make sure he sees it.” Another benefit of
Walking the line between history and historical fiction, the series traces the events that followed the death of Joseph Stalin, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, who died in March 1953 and whose death led to a power struggle for the control of the Central Committee between Lavrentiy Beria and future leader Nikita Khrushchev. Most of the
That efficiency is unsurprising to Armando Iannucci, whose new The Death of Stalin is a movie, [Lavrentiy Beria] really thought it was funny to put a tomato in someone’s pocket and squash it
Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov, (born Jan. 13 [Jan. 8, Old Style], 1902, Orenburg, Russia—died Jan. 14, 1988, near Moscow), prominent Soviet statesman and Communist Party official, a close collaborator of Joseph Stalin, and the prime minister (March 1953–February 1955) after Stalin’s death. Having entered the Red Army (1919) during the
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