Posted on 12/23/2022 9:19:10 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1953, Stalin’s feared minister Lavrenty Beria was shot — finally on the receiving end of the cruelty he had administered to countless Soviet citizens.Lavrenty Pavlovich was, like Stalin, a Georgian peasant, albeit one generation younger.
He won his way into Stalin’s confidence from the 1920’s, and in 1938 replaced Nikolai Yezhov as head of the KGB predecessor NKVD. Yezhov did much of the bloody work of the Great Purge, and was himself in turn purged. The cunning Beria must have taken note.
Though his initial project was to clean up the excesses of the Yezhovshchina — releasing thousands of innocent convicts, making the gulag camps less homicidal and more effective and keeping prisoners alive long enough to get some work out of them, that sort of thing — it wasn’t long before Beria cast a terrifying shadow of his own. (Beria was Yezhov’s deputy, so it’s not like he walked into the job without the requisite qualifications for mass murder.) He wrote the memo proposing the execution of Polish officers that led to the Katyn massacre....
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His cousin, Adam Schiff, misses old Lavvy..
Beria would have been a perfect fit for the Biden Administration. Beria would have teenage girls brought to his office where he would rape and murder them, burying them outside.
Here’s a retaliated short clip from the satirical movie, “The Death of Stalin”. The clip is not historically accurate. But it’s a fun watch because of the guy who played Marshal Zhukov.
The Zhukov guy deliberately spoke with a Yorkshire accent, by the way.
“On this date in 1953, Stalin’s feared minister Lavrenty Beria was shot — finally on the receiving end of the cruelty he had administered to countless Soviet citizens.Lavrenty Pavlovich was, like Stalin, a Georgian peasant, albeit one generation younger.”
The same fate awaits Vladimir Putin. Such men never die of old age.
Beria’s heirs actually applied to the post-Soviet government for a reversal of the conviction under laws granting victims of politically motivated prosecutions right of redress. The Russian judiciary turned them down.
Lavrenty Garland.
Just read the site link to Molotov. He died at 96, the last of the Bolshevik old guard.
And apparently when his time came, Beria was crying like a little bitch. Just as he used to mock his victims in front of Stalin.
In the movie, Zhukov wasn’t afraid of any of them and he was openly disrespectful of them. And either the secret police were killing members of the military, or members of the military were killing members of the secret police. I’m thinking of watching it again.
And now we have the J6 committee, deja-vu!
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