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Posted on 01/17/2003 5:39:59 PM PST by knighthawk
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors on Friday presented a criminal dossier on feared Soviet secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, including a list of hundreds of women he had allegedly stalked and raped.
The Russian Military Prosecutor's office presented Beria's 47-volume criminal case, which ended with death sentence and a quick execution in 1953. The dossier will be opened to the public only after 25 years, Russian television stations reported.
They said that prosecutors had presented the Beria files to disprove media reports that they had been stolen. Prosecutors allowed the cameramen to film some documents, which included a list of women that was confiscated from his aide. Soviet-era investigators accused him of stalking and raping women.
RTR state television said the handwritten list contained hundreds of names. The station briefly showed several fragments of the list that included women's names and telephone numbers.
Valery Kondratov, a senior prosecutor in charge of reviewing Soviet-era repression cases, said that Beria's files made no reference to an alleged arsenal of deadly poisons developed in a laboratory he personally ran.
``There was no information about the special laboratory, let alone recipes of some secret poisons,'' Kondratov said in televised remarks.
Some Russian and foreign historians have said that Beria had the laboratory develop an array of poisons to use against his foes at home and abroad. Some theorized that Beria might have poisoned Soviet dictator Josef Stalin himself.
Beria was appointed head of the NKVD secret police in 1938 and playeda a major role in the terror of the Stalin era. He oversaw purges in which tens of thousands of people were executed and ruled the forced labor camps where millions were imprisoned.
Beria was one of Stalin's closest confidantes and was entrusted with key tasks such as overseeing the development of the Soviet atomic bomb.
Beria was arrested in a power struggle months after Stalin's March 1953 death, convicted of treason and terrorism and shot. During interrogation after his arrest, Beria testified to personally having brutally beaten prisoners.
In 2000, Russia's Supreme Court rejected an appeal for Beria's legal exoneration from his relatives, who claimed that his sentence at a closed trial and execution were illegal.
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
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What possible legitimate reason can there be for keeping the details of Beria's case secret for another 25 years? If Russia ever wants to become a normal country, this is not the way to do it.
The fact that Beria was a foul rapist of young girls, on top of all his other monstrous qualities, was well known 60 years ago, in any case.
Funnyskaya.
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Beria is clearly Clinton's role model in this and so many other areas.
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Uh, we did the same thing with the files on Martin Luther King.
| From: Misha Verbitsky (verbit@cauchy.mit.edu) Subject: Re: HISTORY OF INTERNAL BORDERS IN FORMER SOVIET
Date: 1993-08-05 05:54:18 PST |
In article <1993Aug5.001800.26731@husc14.harvard.edu> garcia@husc8.harvard.edu (Javier Garcia-Torres) writes: >In article <1993Aug3.175439.26658@husc14.harvard.edu> verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes: > >> By the irony of history, Beria *was* >> responsible for Zhdanov's death and >> most probably for Stalin's death too, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> though the doctors were innocent. > > Are there any sources for this? I was given to understand that >Stalin, who was an old man at the time, died of natural causes. There are no reliable sources, only the persistent rumours. Anyway, Beria was "sceduled to removal" very soon (this is pretty well documented) and he most probably knew this, too, having a lot of secret channels of information. He was (probably) able to kill Stalin, having an excellent agenture. He was completely ruthless (a typical pastime of Beria was to ride in a car around Moscow, spot a pretty girl (usually younger than 17-16) and take her to his apartment for a session in bed. The girls were sometimes daughters of party officials of highest positions. After Beria was executed, there was commission which was literally flooded with mail from unfortunate women - it seems that Beria raped about 300 new women yearly despite of his age. The funniest detail is that Beria was extremely gallant with women even as he raped them, so some came to adore and even love him.) It would be weird if he would not attempt to kill Stalin. Moreover, the death of Stalin was not too ordinary: his symptomatic was quite exotic, and there were several fishy details around his death. Misha.
He had his driver troll for school girls and when he saw one he fancied she would be scooped up.
Beria with Stalin's daughter Svetlana.
Hopefully the nextgen will never experience these terrors.
Oh yeah, I'm confident.
Yet in the west, how many people have even heard of him?
My nose is quite striking too! But I'm (an) hispanic!
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