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    ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ‿ˈbʲerʲɪjə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, romanized: Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria; 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet...
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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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  • 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 Yuri Andreyev, director...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    under leadership of Ja'far Pishevari was proclaimed in Tabriz in 1945. Lavrenti Beria was nominally in charge of the operation, but delegated it to Mir Jafar...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • masculine given name. Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet politician Lavrentiy Tsanava, Soviet politician Lavrenti (given name) Lavrentis (name) Laurentius (disambiguation)...
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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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    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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  • the acting director of foreign intelligence. The head of the NKVD, Lavrenti Beria, had Spigelglas arrested seven months later on November 2, 1938. He...
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    Roald Sagdeev. He quoted the former secret-service chief under Stalin, Lavrenti Beria, who said, "Let's make them work for now. We can shoot them all later...
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    were used on awards and Communist Party cards. Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrenti Beria, the KGB chief, used similar stamps. Quality forgeries have been made...
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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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    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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