I will believe the New York Times on this, not you, mr. troll.
While you are here though, tell us how Lavrentiy Beria did not actually kill chained prisoners with a flamethrower.
Well, like if NYT never lies....:)
Keep trust them if so.
As for Beria I don’t know. From what we know about this personality he probably could do that you said for real.
More for the kids who don’t know Russia.
Use of chemical weapons
There have also been numerous reports of chemical weapons being used by Soviet forces in Afghanistan, often indiscriminately against civilians. A declassified CIA report from 1982 states that between 1979 and 1982 there were 43 separate chemical weapons attacks which caused more than 3000 deaths. By spring 1980, attacks with chemical weapons were reported in “all areas with concentrated resistance activity”.