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from moscow with. the top stories the u.s. congress is preparing to vote on the last minute deal between republicans and democrats to raise the debt ceiling and avoid to fold the critics said the compromise doesn't soul america's problem but it should. be us please do step a push for sanctions of. protest in. moscow says violence on either side of the country some exceptional. troops clashed with protesters in cairo as military police move into a rally. hundreds of demonstrators have camped out in tahrir square for weeks now

that amount a faster pace of change after five years of your uprising. next week travels through one of history's darkest chapters as we explore the notorious 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 the 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 used to supervise both the u.s.s.r. gulags 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. beriah found himself here soon after his arrest in the kremlin 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 for his participation in widespread political repression. this list contains the names of people in beers your instruction tourist everybody there is also an old saying first category which means education. i confess that all those resolutions were approved by myself in person.

of the bay area case would fill a couple of such shills like you here you can find records of interrogations and it doesn't mince for some reason most of these materials have not yet been declassified. to be found. prisoners have their pictures taken from the. family album. and the. performance involving a body double. oh they do what he did somebody was indeed taken for question in the summer why she always wore a cloak and a hat and his face was that he didn't behind us call for what that like this that

you but why did they need to do it in summer yes it's clear that officers peeping from plain rooms couldn't see that the man was not bear 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 survive the tronic of years cannot forget the horrors that plague them in that period the nighttime whisper of black vans pulling up to the house tenants apprehended without warning charged for spying on the behalf of foreign intelligence services all of them would either face execution or end up in a prison camp. censure violence would end to the courtyard during the night i was but it child but i still have very vivid memories of them i was so scared that it couldn't fend off the tread out 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 one nine hundred thirty s. stalin had begun to get rid of the old guard of his predecessor vladimir lenin whole families were being arrested. more with the this one shows me in prison. as the daughter of anime is of the people you would my father was and the only one they had arrested with what oh that's exactly what the judge told me you don't are of animus of the people who go. the picturesque region in the caucasus you. understand was compelled to join georgia. three decades before that celebrity burial had been born here in the village of merkel 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 bury a family lived. i can't remember anything negative about the jungle love it was a good thing when he grew up his parents until to tell him to study their. soviet leaders were fond of vacationing and i pass here. as he is leader nestor introduced the young hopeful. to his old friends. the two met here in one nine hundred thirty one by that time barry had already shown his worth by working in local state security agencies. mary wrote a letter to the lady he ordered this and all the letters to be found in destroyed in their letter mary as put in a word for him so that the medium those letters of survived i've seen them all. stalin took note of the young activist soon after the burial was appointed head of the georgian communist party. immediately began planting loyalists in key posts as

for the man who had introduced him to stalin beria now considered him a nuisance. in december nine hundred thirty six barry invited nestor like oh but to dinner a few hours later suddenly felt sick. everybody in our pas you knew that he had been people know what the. doctors who said as much. were eliminated there and then. body was taken from the georgian capital to pass here where it was given a state funeral in. gardens that was shortly before nine hundred thirty seven the year of the most massive political crackdown in the soviet union. we were sure it was a hero's funeral the way. but he didn't turn up for it i think he was afraid of retribution after. an enemy of the people who.

thought of mass repression. is a black sea resort in the past in the one nine hundred thirty s. local steered clear of this building just outside town. right or so a chicken dead say has found out that so-called political prisoners were kept here in the basements 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. 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. his 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 collective farms the crackdown on enemies of the people in this region was especially harsh all the while stalin and beria vacationed in nearby colleges. let's get that has been when i was a schoolboy i saw the area several times he would come here with a wedding load of border guards around the area always wore eyeglasses who would go down the road with his hands behind his back to look like a man wanting to boss everybody around him. 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 festive undertones they are going to drink wine to commemorate the victims of their oppressions unleased by stalin and beria. today we remember all the rules 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 there. let us never forget them. moscow libya square house number two. this is the headquarters of the soviet union secret police beriah took charge of this government department in one thousand and thirty it after moving to the soviet capital from georgia he was originally educated as a builder but unlike his fanatical predecessors he took

a more practical approach to. hundred thirty eight the reign of terror changed under beriah it didn't come to an end but was less massive in scope and it was no focused on particular tasks barrett took the system and incorporated it into the soviet economy. one of lot of near lennon's associates of seeing who was executed in one nine hundred thirty eight his son anton spent nearly thirteen years in the girl like he knows from his own experience how soviet economic progress was achieved in the one nine hundred thirty s. and the price paid for it he worked at numerous giant construction sites and was almost blind when he left prison camp and each day we worked for twelve hours on end of the bus the round trip from the barracks and back behind green exhausted the inmates just go out into a plank bed in the whole time they were plagued with thoughts about whether their

wives and children would not be thrown out into the street simply because they were related to an enemy of the people the. 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. having to work in confinement it was a negative experience for scientists moreover many of them as an excuse to make them work fits they saw it as a chance to be released. besides they were better chances for survival their prison scientists were given better food and the work was not as harsh. one of barry as top secret projects was a toxicological laboratory of the n.k.v.d. . here scientists tested poisons on people sentenced to death later top soviet

leaders authorized the. use of such poisons him 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. couldn't bear it was later told i received instructions from above who it was stolen has told him to supply the n.k.v.d. with poisons tested on humans but i did in the new. today a significant number of russian communists are campaigning to have beria exonerated they feel he was one of stalin's best managers but modern day communists prefer 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. shortly before the end of world war two burial was given a top secret job. overseeing the development of the soviet atomic bomb. beria to coordinate the cooperation between soviet spies were hunting out scientific information in the west and the u.s.s.r. as nuclear physicists only a few people knew about burials task. from

. top team dot com. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around. we've got the future covered. the secret military facilities twenty one was built under various watchful. 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 bomb. 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 nine thousand nine hundred forty nine up a similar tests citing kazakstan the command bunker gave the order to set off. the air waves three none of those present and had ever seen anything like it we were is done after the explosion but we remain shocked for a long time that. this is one of the caricaturist depicting beriah style of management here he has shown dressing subordinates down for poor 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 his name is love rain

t. bierria i miss them but i'm feeling a little bit confused if truth though it seems that it's common to be praised in such meetings and i have to live with it. one of the few people who have the guts to collide with beria head on was dr pure. who would later be awarded the nobel prize in physics he was one of the chiefs of the soviet atomic project in its initial stages when the scientists complained to stalin about beria instantly became the worst enemy in bury as ice. covered beery ashes the conductor's baton in his hands 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 the score understanding scores is not very

a strong point. army general who feels to tell the story she was in stalin's office when very interesting and began cursing. there is shouted i've had enough of him it's high time he was dealt with stalin set firmly i'll take care of it but leave him alone but. 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 closest associates with beriah at the forefront. of the spoiled relations with all those who admin install in a circle everything he did after stalin's the oyster the fact that he was pursuing his own agenda. is interior ministry even collected compromising materials to discredit his opponents that 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. beriah was dubbed the foreign spy acting against the interests of the soviet union the charge and typically been used against most of the political prisoners that ended up in good likes. this is hell if there is a rest. talking about god knows an appropriate. well but at that time i think got to providence when i made inquiries in the commandments office about whether i was in for amnesty but. i was surprised to hear this is he'll be ok as the reds would. central moscow today this building houses the newseum embassy in russia but from the one nine hundred thirty s. until his arrest it was lebron t. berry as residents none of his relatives saw him alive after he was detained later that gave rise to rumors claiming that barry had been shot in his home before he was due to be arrested. two armored personnel carriers with soldiers inside

pressure the gate leading into the courtyard security personnel rushed out of the house to see what was going on meanwhile beret came to the window to investigate the commotion and at that moment he 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 saw barry injuring his trial beauty into tears up to bury a major drawing of a colored illegibly said while you were being a silly girl if some weakling had got hold of you he would have given you know you do it 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 taken who took his moral characteristics he's a pervert and men who molest children.

do you admit that you committed a crime against his daughter. i only admitted that i shouldn't have had contact with. but i supported her materially on a regular basis. during interrogation beriah 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. comics lived in barracks that used to be behind these buildings there is a fair chance that my grandmother was among them. lorraine teaberry often showed up

in the street. more likely than not it he met my grandfather here. later he fathered a son my father as. never saw his father he was raised by adoptive parents who never discuss the matter many still see laplacian co as a fraud. is one of the most active defenders of barry as name and he is still quite sure the beria is his grandfather. who could move some time ago i was even playing with the idea of changing my name but i was advised to take a d.n.a. test first so that the result could be backed up with official beepers no i said a few i'm none other than a beary and i'm dead sure of it without any tests. episodes of rape and extramarital relations have little effect on the outcome of burials 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. the whole affair came to a logical conclusion if you have a vicious as a do towards others be ready to face the same attitude in return in this case paris fell victim to the lawless system that team self had protected and developed to show it as you will. one of various most brutal deeds came to light not long ago after the declassification of special archives in 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 memo 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. top secret to. stollen the polish prisoners of war are trying to

continue their counter revolutionary activity everybody is eagerly looking forward to their release to be able to join the struggle against the soviet government. of the use of sardines it's necessary to subject them to execution as the last sanction of the law signed miria people's commie sorrow internal affairs if. these are authentic documents i'm sure authorized the 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 thousand 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 to soviet repression

machine jettison that unnecessary and burdensome ballast the father of renowned polish film director and j. vida was among the poles shot by barrios man. unlike my father most of those taken prisoner were not career officers rather they represented the polish intelligentsia. they were university professors well i school teachers actors and artists among them. in short all those who had been drafted into the army in one thousand nine hundred thirty nine. yet another project thought up by beria sowed the seeds of an interest in a conflict between georgians and up in the caucasus on his orders hundreds of families were forcibly moved from georgia to up 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 in our pass' 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. areas 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. the republics infrastructure was almost completely destroyed. today there was a monument to those who died in the war and mass oppressions outside each village. as for burial there are no monuments to him and. there is not even

a trace of his parental house in the village of. norman love rented barrios house used to stand behind all of his ruined building our beds all know nothing about tall weeds girls are. still neither man nor beast they have been sure through their. people in the respect long running traditions 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 times beriah are ruins and wasteland and nothing else.