Beria's son, Sergo Beria, later recounted that after Stalin's death, his mother Nina told her husband that, "Your position now is even more precarious than when Stalin was alive." [10] This turned out to be correct; several months later, in June 1953, Beria was arrested and charged with a variety of crimes but, significantly, none relating to Stalin and his notorious executioner Lavrentiy Beria, also from Georgia, are left nameless in The Eighth Life, replaced with “Generalissimus” and “Little Big Man”, the latter a playful Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich (1899–1953) Soviet politician, chief (1938–53) of the secret police (NKVD). Beria headed the Cheka, predecessor of the NKVD, in Transcaucasia in the 1920s. He helped Stalin to conduct the purges of the Communist Party and ruthlessly controlled internal security. When Stalin died he was arrested and executed for Beria took over as leader of the Politburo after Stalin's death and actually tried to distance himself from Stalin's policies - released around a million people from labour camps and attempted to reach agreements with the west over Germany, until Khrushchev "outmanoeuvred" him and had him executed. Flirting with death. In 1939, Vasily Blokhin was almost hoist by his own petard. Lavrenty Beria, who had just become head of the state security apparatus, began purging Yezhov’s people — and March 1, 1953 (Sunday) Joseph Stalin suffered a stroke after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin, and Nikita Khrushchev. The stroke paralyzed the right side of his body and rendered him unconscious until his death on March 5. [1] Along with Krushchev, Malenkov was one of a few important members of Stalin's group of partners (called the "inner circle") who died a natural death, and was not executed. Together with Lavrentiy Beria and Krushchev , Malenkov began the process of destalinization , completing the process from 1953-1961. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev [b] (15 April [ O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Vay Tiền Nhanh Ggads.

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