a precocious presence wealthy british style it's a sometimes it's. hard. to. market why no. one knows what's really happening to the global economy in the record. itself in most cases all team in washington announces a deal to raise the debt ceiling and the faults with critics say to me doesn't solve america's problems and its reputation is going down the drain. the u.s. and the e.u. that push for sanctions against the syrian government's crackdown on protesters reportedly death more than one hundred people last day says violence on either side

of the country's conflict is unexpected. egyptian troops clash with processes in cairo's minute she police knew even to break up a rally hundreds of demonstrators have come to town in the central square for weeks suppress them all so fast a change often separates popular uprising. the next he travels through one of history's don't get chapters as we explore the tourist concentration camps of the former soviet union. the summer of one nine hundred fifty three soviet leader joseph stalin passed away one hundred days ago mosco has sent classified instructions to every corner of the soviet union a biography of a man whose name is often mentioned only in whispers is to be removed from the great soviet encyclopedia and destroyed. state security martial of n.z. beriah used to supervise both the u.s.s.r. through legs and the entire repression machine of the soviet union. many episodes

of his life and the circumstances of his death are still couched in mystery. this army bunker in central moscow is more than ten meters underground a venti beriah found himself here soon after his arrest in the kremlin and there was no chance of escape or help from the outside. area was interrogated by none other than the soviet union's prosecutor general. one of the initial charges put against him was force participation in widespread political repression. this list contains the names so forty six people can be yours your instruction jurist everybody there is also an old saying first category which education.

i confess that all those resolutions were approved by myself in person. the forty volumes of the dairy case would fill a couple of such chills. here you can find records of interrelations and the documents and for some reason most of these materials have not yet been declassified. the beria case is a peculiar one. finger prints to be found normally prisoners have their pictures taken from the front and sides various cases on the other hand contains only this photo looks as though it was taken from a family album. supports the theory that has been rumored for half a century she claims beriah was never interrogated and the trial itself was a skillfully executed performance involving a body double. well baby do what you did somebody was indeed taken for questioning

in summer where he always wore a cloak and hat and his face was hidden behind a scoffer like this let you know but why did they need to do it in summer yes it's clear that officers pekin from playrooms can see that the man was not there it all . for victims of political persecution barriers name was synonymous with the repressions that swept everything away in their path in the one nine hundred thirty s. those who survived the tropical years cannot forget the horrors that plague them in that period the nighttime whisper of black vans pulling up to the house tenants are branded without warning charged for spying on the powerful foreign intelligence services all of them would either face execution or end up in a prison camp. i think the most essential violence would end to the courtyard during the night i was but a child then but i still have very vivid memories of them i was so scared that it

couldn't fend off the tragedy belt will be made so no matter how hard i try to. get it back over his life story is typical of a whole generation her father took part in the one nine hundred seventeen bolshevik revolution as his career progressed he rose to the upper ranks but ultimately it meant little in the 1930's stalin had begun to get rid of the old guard of his predecessor vladimir lenin all families were being arrested. for this one shows me in prison. as the daughter of anime is of the people you would know my father wasn't the only one they had arrested what oh that's exactly what the judge told me you don't are of anime's of the people who go. a picturesque region in the caucasus. under stalin was compelled to join georgia. three decades before that celebrity burial had been born

here in the village of america will high in the mountains. for nearly forty years atari come taria taught at the local school it stood side by side with the house where the beria family lives. i can't remember anything negative about not knowing what love really was a good thing when he grew up is going something to tell him to study there. soviet leaders were fond of vacationing up has here. as he is leader nestor like obama introduced the young hopeful levante beriah to his old friend stalin the two met here in one thousand thirty one by that time barry had already shown his worth by working in local state security agencies. are very wrote a letter to nuss the local lady he ordered this and all the letters that he found the destroyed in their letter and various ness that the put in a word for him so that stalin forget the medium those letters of civil art i've

seen them all. stalin took note of the young activists soon after the burial was appointed head of the georgian communist party. immediately began planting loyalists in camp posts as the man who had introduced him to stalin beria now considered him a nuisance. and december nineteenth thirty six very invited nestor like oh but to dinner a few hours later suddenly felt sick. everybody not positing knew that he had been poisoned and people know what of the two doctors who said as much a bunch of dogs and similar gee if i were eliminated their own them. body was taken from the georgian capital to have has the area where it was given a state funeral in suha tenneco gardens that was shortly before nine hundred thirty seven the year of the most massive political crackdown in the soviet union. it was a hero's funeral the way. from tbilisi but he didn't turn out for it i think he was

afraid of retribution afterwards the cold war with declared an enemy of the people who. this is not the start of mass repression. is a black sea resort in the past in the one nine hundred thirty s. local steer clear of this building just outside town. writer sergei chicken dead say has found out that so-called political prisoners were kept here in the basement of the interior ministry's local television. as soon as all the paperwork was signed off on the condemned. from these basements and shot right here on this spot in the limestone pits by the sea shore. yuri benny has spent his whole life here after he was labeled

a son of an enemy of the people he lived with the stigma for fifteen years he was stripped of many rights such as being barred from studying at a legal institute. it's family home was deserted in one thousand thirty seven fifteen relatives all of whom were well to do peasants were shot for refusing to join soviet collector farmers a crackdown on enemies of the people in this region was especially harsh all the while stalin and beria vacationed in nearby colleges. but let's get past that when i was a schoolboy i saw various several times he would come here with a wedding load of border guards and the area always wore eyeglasses who would go down the road with his hands behind his back and look like a man wanting to boss everybody around. for many years whenever and has in families got together even mentioning the names of relatives branded as enemies of the people was dangerous nowadays when guests visit yuri benny as grants and hands

him a vessel in the form of a horn reserved for special occasions. the guests drink wine from simple looking glasses but the first toast has no festival undertones they're going to drink wine to commemorate the victims of the repressions unleashed by stalin and beria. today we remember all the ills who are oppressed in the prime of their lives the time has come for us to name their names without having to worry about a new crackdown. let us never forget them. moscow lubyanka square house number two. this is the headquarters of the soviet union secret police area took charge of this government department in one nine

hundred thirty it after moving to the soviet capital from georgia he was originally educated as a builder but i like his fanatical criticizers he took a more practical approach to. restored. to nine hundred thirty eight the reign of terror changed on to beria it didn't come to an end but was less massive in scope for you it was no focused on particular tasks there it's a good old system and incorporated into the soviet economy. one of lot of your lens the socially it's until of cinco was executed in one thousand thirty eight as son anton spent nearly thirteen years in the go like he knows from his own experience how soviet economic progress was achieved in one thousand thirty s. and the price paid for it he worked at numerous giant construction sites and was almost blind when he left prison camp you know each day we worked for twelve hours on end it was their own tree from the barracks and back behind green exhausted he

meets just go into a plank bed the whole time they were with thoughts about whether their wives and children would not be thrown out into the street simply because they were waited to an enemy of the people and. burial was also behind the establishment of secret research bureaus scientists and academics were rounded up on invented charges and forced into unpaid labor. author of the gulag archipelago alexander solzhenitsyn spent several years in one of them. needless to say having to work in confinement it was a negative experience for scientists hundreds moreover many of them were arrested as an excuse to make them work in those outfits were horrible people they saw it as a chance to be released at a time for besides they were better chances for survival there than in a regular prison camp scientists were given better food or and the work was not as harsh. one of barry as top secret projects was

a toxicological love for tree of the n.k.v.d. . here scientists tested poisons on people sentenced to bath later told soviet leaders authorized the use of such poisons and politically motivated assassinations . the laboratory head is on record is reporting the following some one hundred convicts were used for the purpose more than half of them died as a result of the experiments. i wish to state categorically that i knew nothing about it. wouldn't be able to bear it was late until i received instructions from above who calls and you guessed it was stalling he told him to supply the n.k.v.d. with poisons tested on humans are. you. today a significant number of russian communists are campaigning to have beria

exhilarated they feel he was one of stalin's best managers a modern day communist professor not to mention the price people paid for various kind of order. at the border which variously treated people as nothing but coggs in a machine that's the way people were treated during those years whenever beriah was given a job to do he just did it and that's. sorted before the end of world war two the area was given a top secret job. overseeing the development of the soviet atomic bomb. stalin ordered mariya to coordinate the cooperation between soviet spies that were hunting out scientific information in the west and the u.s.s.r. as nuclear physicists only a few people knew about various tasks. it

used to be an ideal place for a holiday put it all changed in a moment. i. know the wounds of war are still visible. the republic is not only relieved but also shaping the future. the form of. kazakstan the secret military facility semi platens twenty one was built under various watchful our. initial preparations for secret tests got underway by the summer of one thousand nine hundred forty nine. the aim was to achieve nuclear parity as soon as possible with

the united states which already had the ball. to be really had to meet the deadline if you don't need a deadline they told us you'll wish you were dead. on august twenty ninth one thousand forty nine the center has site and has a stand command bunker gave the order to settle. here way three none of those present and had ever seen anything like it here we were is done. for the explosion but we remain shocked for a long time that. this is one of the caricaturist depicting beriah style of management here he is showing dressing subordinates down four per performance. the cartoonist was executed as an enemy of the people back in one nine hundred thirty

eight beriah didn't think nearly as much of humor as he did of flattery. and to date on are one such person whose deeds are immense and his name is love rain t. period. and if that guy feeling a little bit confused if truth though it seems that it's common to be praised in such music this thread and i have to live with it. one of the few people who have begun to collide with beria head on was dr pure kept pizza who would later be awarded the nobel prize in physics he was one of the chiefs of the soviet atomic project and its initial stages when the scientists complained to stalin about beria instantly became the worst enemy and bury as ice. covered beery ashes the conductor's baton he stands for that's not bad but then this scientist must play first violin the conductors job is not only willing to put

on but also understanding this chord understanding scores is not very a strong point that the army general who used to tell. the story she was in stalin's office when very interesting and again person. there is shouted i've had enough of here it's high time he was dealt with stalin said firmly i'll take care of it but leave him alone. in the spring of one nine hundred fifty three stalin died even though his body had not yet been buried a power struggle unfolded between his close associates with dariya at the forefront . of the spoiled relations will ogles admin install ins in a circle with everything he did after the stall and of course the fact that he was pursuing his own agenda. his interior ministry even collect the compromising materials to discredit his opponents they gave rise to conspiracy theories that he

sought to seize power. in the end his former associates saw beriah as a threat they decided to strip him of power by resorting to the very methods he used to deal with opponents plenty of area was dubbed the foreign spy acting against the interests of the soviet union a charge of typically been used against most of the political prisoners that ended up and. this is how i felt about there is the rest. talking about god knows an appropriate. well that's at that time i think got to providence yet when i made inquiries in the commandments office about whether i was in for amnesty. i was surprised to hear this you'll be ok so rev. central moscow today this building houses the chin is an embassy in russia but from the one nine hundred thirty s. until his arrest it was love rented various residence. of his relatives saw him

alive after he was detained later that gave rise to rumors claiming that the area had been shot in his home before he was due to be arrested. two armored personnel carriers with soldiers inside pressure at the gate leading into the courtyard security personnel rushed out of the house to see what was going on meanwhile mary came to the window to investigate the commotion at that moment she was hit by machine gun fire it was a military like approach. most historians do not subscribe to that theory one of them nikita petroff has found out that a girl living in a house across the road from the mansion of the interior minister saberi ensuring his trial the city is up to bury him a drawing of a. kill legibly said while you were being a silly girl if some weakling had got hold of you it would have given you a jew it's all those words some of the area better than anything else.

he deprived me of the joys of childhood and youth as you look into his evil deeds mistaken narrative is more a cat three sticks he's a pervert and men who molest children. do you admit that you committed a crime against yours dollar. i only admit that i shouldn't have had contact with just over what i supporters are materially on a regular basis. during interrogation varia confirmed that he had had numerous liaisons for many years now eagerly patching co has been trying to prove that the notorious former secret police chief is his grandfather according to him barry i met his grandmother in one of the secret towns in the urals when he was on a business trip there. were comics lived in there is that he used to be

behind these buildings and there is a fair chance that my grandfather was among them. lowering teaberry often showed up in the street. the more likely event not he met my grandfather here. later he fathered a son my father is come there a very both. never saw his father he was raised by a doctor of parents who never discussed the matter many still see love patching because a fraud. is one of the most active defenders of various name and he is still quite sure of the barrier is his grandfather. who could move some time ago i was even playing with the a.t.o. changing my me when i was advised to take a d.n.a. test first so that the result could be back up with official papers no mice it a few i'm none other than a dairy and i'm dead sure of it without any tests. or. episodes

of rape and extramarital relations have little effect on the outcome of various trial his former associates in the kremlin had already sealed his fate shortly before he was arrested the prosecutor's office and the judge simply rubber stamp their decision many saw beriah as too dangerous to let him live. for the whole affair came to a logical conclusion you think if you have a vicious attitude towards others be ready to face the same attitude in return in this case paris fell victim to the laws system that he himself had protected and developed to show it was very well. one of various most brutal deeds came to light not long ago after the declassification of special archives this folder containing the so-called caton case was handed over to poland shortly before the breakup of the soviet union one of the documents is

a member written by beria in it he suggests the execution of more than twenty thousand poles who ended up in soviet captivity in the autumn of one nine hundred thirty nine. toss a pretty. to cameron stalin the polish prisoners of war are trying to continue their accounts or revolutionary activity everybody is eagerly looking forward to their release to be able to join the struggle against the soviet government n.k.v.d. of the use of sardines and necessary to subject them to execution as the last sanction of the law signed the area peoples komisar with internal affairs it no doubt these are authentic documents i'm sure stalin authorised various proposal to execute polish army soldiers officers and other military personnel. the polish army officers were taken prisoner by soviet troops it happened after a secret agreement was signed in august one nine hundred thirty nine between the

soviet union and hitler's germany to divide poland into spheres of influence. thousands of captive poles found themselves in soviet camps soon afterwards the soviet repression machine jettisoned that unnecessary and burdensome ballast a father of renowned polish film director and j. vida was among the poles shot by various men. of their enemy unlike my father most of those taken prisoner were not career offices rather they represented the polish intelligentsia but they were university professors high school teachers actors and artists among them the insurance over those who had been drafted into the army in one thousand nine hundred thirty nine you don't. get another project thought by beria so the seeds of an interest in a conflict between georgians and i've has ins in the caucasus on his orders

hundreds of families were forcibly moved from georgia to up has here in the one nine hundred thirty s. and forty's following the devastation caused by mass repressions there that triggered the erosion and simulation of the i pads in population. the houses that were built under the project have survived or not has he is rural areas to this day but nobody lives there now. not old in the village residents still refer to them as various houses the aim of the resettlement policy was to make sure that as many georgians as possible were settled and i was in religious. various time bomb eventually went off in the one nine hundred ninety s. half a century later. the civil war that broke out then drove georgians out of has here . the republican infrastructure was almost completely destroyed. today there is a monument to those who died in the war and mass oppressions outside each village.

as from the area there are no monuments to him of has he and now there is not even a trace of his parental house in the village of america. for your. love rented various else used to stand behind all of his ruined building where you are there now nothing but tall weeds girl there. neither man nor beast there venture through their. people in a respect long running through dish and in accordance with one of them dead people deserve either praise or no mention at all the only reminder to this day of stalin's right time command of ranty beriah are ruins and waste land and nothing else.

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