Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov ( Russian: Богда́н Заха́рович Кобу́лов; 1 March 1904 – 23 December 1953) served as a senior member of the Soviet security- and police-apparatus during the rule of Joseph Stalin. After Stalin's death he was arrested and executed along with his former chief and patron Lavrentiy Beria . Lavrentiy Beria started his career in state security and quickly rose through the ranks until he became the chief of the Georgian OGPU (the political police). Whilst ruthlessly putting down a Georgian nationalist uprising he was introduced to Joseph Stalin with whom he became a close ally assisting Stalin to maintain his grip on power. ‌His words were compared to those of his predecessor Lavrentiy Beria – KGB chief – after the death of Stalin in 1953. ‌Patrushev, virulently anti-Western secretary of the Russian Security Beria was arrested three months after Stalin died, not almost simultaneously, and he was not head of the security forces, a job he had given up in 1946. Armando Iannucci: ‘I was saved from being Officially, Stalin suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. However, Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, longtime head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD — the secret police boss who . 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 Sergo Beria: built rockets in exile. Stalin’s right-hand man and the head of the NKVD, Lavrenty Beria, had only one son. Sergo carved himself a brilliant career as a military engineer Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ( 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Joseph Stalin. He was top deputy of the NKVD during the Great Purge, responsible for many of the millions of imprisonments and killings. He was arrested and executed by his political rivals MOSCOW, FEB. 28 -- If there is a demon, a version of absolute evil, in the new version of Soviet history in the official press it is Lavrenti Beria, the dreaded head of the secret police who Yet another was that some of the key bomb shelters, named after leading figures such as Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin, and Lavrentiy Beria, were all connected by a secret underground passageway that has

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