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eyes in washington as the u.s. deal in raising the national debt limits is facing a critical vote in congress but analysts say even of the bill goes through months of political bickering and america's reputation worldwide. the u.s. and the step out that push from all sanctions against syria after the latest crackdown on protests is reportedly leaves more than one hundred people dead condemning violence from both sides. also gyptian troops clashed with protesters in cairo as the military police moved in to break up hundreds of demonstrators have come to town to have square for weeks to demand to fall to pace of change up to fabrice a popular uprising. next to travel through one of history's darkest chapters as they 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 law 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 force participation in widespread political repression. this list contains the names of thirty six 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. volumes of the buriat case would fill a couple of such shills like you here you can find records of interrogations and indictments but for some reason most of these materials have not yet been

declassified. to be found. prisoners have their pictures taken. half a century. and the. body double. well they do what he did somebody was indeed taken for question in the summer where he always wore a cloak and a hat and his face was that he didn't behind us a 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 playrooms 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 van switch and to the courtyard during the night i was but it child then 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. set 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 flawed amir lenin

whole families were being arrested. 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 with what oh that's exactly what the judge told me 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 a house where the beria family lived. i can't remember anything negative about. 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. he was leader nestor introduced the young hopeful. to his old friends. the two met here in one thousand nine hundred 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 and 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 and keep posting . 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 to do. to doctors who said as much and similar gee if i were eliminated there and then. body was taken from the georgian capital to pass here where it was given a state funeral in botanical gardens that was shortly before nine hundred thirty seven the year of the most massive political crackdown in the soviet union. it was just. 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 division. as soon as all the paperwork was signed off on the condemned ward out from these basements and shot right here on this spot in the limestone pits by the seashore. 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 beriah several times he would come here with a wedding load of border guards around the area always wore eyeglasses he would go down the road with his hands behind his back to look like a man and 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 were pressed in the prime of the 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 lubyanka 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 and the reign of terror changed on to beria it didn't come to an end but was less message in scope and was

no focused on particular tasks barrett took the good old system and incorporated into the soviet economy. one of lot of near lennon's associates until of cinco 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 in each day we worked for twelve hours on end their own trip from the barracks and back behind green exhausted he meets just go out into a plank bed whole time they were playing with thoughts about whether their wives and children had not been thrown out into the street simply because they were related to an enemy of the people but 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. needless to say having to work in confinement was a negative experience for scientists moreover many of them were as an excuse to make them work shifts they saw it as a chance to be released. besides they were better chances for survival their regular prison camp scientists were given better food and the work was not as harsh . one of barrios 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 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 had told him to supply the n.k.v.d. with poisons tested on humans but i didn't then we do. 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 barry is kind of order. at the border which treated people as nothing but a coggs in a machine that's the way people were treated during those years whenever burial was

given a job to do he just did it and that's. shortly before the end of world war two ferial was given a top secret job. overseeing the felons of the soviet atomic bomb. ordered marriott 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 various tasks. last time the close of team was in the cool down region where men flock from all over the world to out a few centimeters to their self-confidence. this time r.t.d. goes to the more reaches. for the gold rush still gets people high to. try to save its culture. where cranes are protected in the first and only on

official nature reserve. to the original. russia close up on r t. o's. the secret military facility semi platens 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 power ts soon as possible if the united states which already had the balls. 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 at the same a test site in kazakstan the command bunker gave the order to set it off. or wave 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 caricature is depicting beriah style of management here he is 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 green

tea period i bet i'm feeling a little bit confused. though it seems that it's common to be praised in such mazie . and i have to live with it. one of the few people who had 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 and 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 bury

a strong point. army general who is to tell the. sorry 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. 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 and stalin's inner circle everything he did after stalin's the point to the fact that he was pursuing his own agenda. is interior ministry even collect a 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. beria 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 gulags. the well this is hell if there is a rest. talking about god knows an appropriate. well but at that time i think got providence when i made inquiries in the commandments office where i wasn't for amnesty that i was surprised to hear this is he'll be ok saurez boy. central moscow today this building houses the chinese e an embassy in russia but from the one nine hundred thirty s. until his arrest it was lebron teaberry as residents none of his relatives saw him alive after he was detained later that gave rise to rumors claiming the barrier 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 of which. most historians do not subscribe to that theory one of them nikita patrol has found out that a girl living in a house across the road from the mansion of the interior minister saw barry a juror in his trial beauty into tears up to better in major drawing going to the ball to legibly said well you will be in your city girl if some weakling had got hold of you he would have given you know you do it all those words some of burial better than anything else. he deprived me of the joys of childhood in youth as you look into his evil deeds taken who took his moral katsaris thinks he's a pervert and men who molest children. do

you admit that you committed a crime against his dollar. 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 grandfather was among them. from labyrinthine beery often

showed up in the street. the 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 cause a fraud. is one of the most active defenders of various names and he is still quite sure of a barrier 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 papers 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 had little effect on the outcome of barrios 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 you think if you have a vicious attitude towards others be ready to face the same attitude in return the budget in this case paris fell victim to the lawless system that he himself had protected and developed to show it as he will. 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 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 counterrevolutionary activity everybody's eagerly looking forward to their release to be able to join the struggle against the soviet government. of the use of sword deems it necessary to subject them to execution as the last sanction of the law signed miria people's commie sorrow internal affairs. these are authentic documents i'm sure authorized 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 the soviet

repression machine jettisoned 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 offices rather they represented of the polish intelligentsia. they were university professors high school teachers act does an artist's among them the hue 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 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. the houses that were built under the project have survived in the positives rural areas to this day but nobody lives there now. not old in the village residents still refer to them as barrios tells us 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. 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 of has he and now there is not even

a trace of his parental house in the village of. one love rented various house used to stand behind this ruined building are there don't know nothing about tall weeds girls there. neither man nor beast there venture through their. people in a 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 hand man beria are ruins and waste land and nothing else.