Getty Images; Pixabay That corpulent man wearing a pince-nez remains one of the most symbolic faces of Joseph Stalin’s era. Lavrentiy Beria was calculating and vicious, hard-working and hedonist – and ...

Lavrenti Beria has entered history's demonology as the last head of Stalin's secret police, the chosen heir to a long line of murderers and torturers. Nikita Khrushchev went further, constructing an ...

THE arrest of Lavrenti P. Beria, which broke in the newspapers here on the morning of Friday, July 10th, offered a great opportunity for the dissemination of the journalistic commodity known as the ...

Russia's state archive has published formerly top secret Soviet-era documents on the April 1940 Katyn massacre on its website. They include a key letter to then Soviet leader Joseph Stalin from secret ...

Steve Buscemi, Adrian McLoughlin, Jeffrey Tambor, Dermot Crowley, and Simon Russell Beale in The Death of Stalin. Credit: Nicola Dove Black comedy doesn’t get any blacker than The Death of Stalin, ...

Lavrenty Beria was responsible for the death of millions of Russians but is now a morbid sideshow, writes Julius Strauss in Moscow In the oak-panelled office where he plotted his victims' fate, a ...

Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of ...

Ukrainian officials have announced a criminal investigation into Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his secret police chief, Lavrenty Beria, for the mass deportation of Muslim Tatars from the Crimean ...

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