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if. he took a. trip to. 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 stroy. state security martial of n.t. baryonic used to supervise 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 a soviet union's prosecutor general. 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 know things first category which means education.

i confess that all those resolutions were approved by myself in person. with the full two volumes of the bay area case which fill a couple of such ills. here you can find records of interrogations ended eichmanns and for some reason most of these materials have not yet been declassified the beria case is a peculiar one there are no fingerprints to be found normally prisoners have their pictures taken from the front and sides various cases on the other hand it contains only this photo it looks as though it was taken from a family album. writer yelena supports the theory that has been rumored for half a century she claims burial was never interrogated and the trial itself was

a skillfully executed performance involving a body double. oh they did what he did somebody was indeed taken for questioning in summer where he always wore a cloak and a hat and his face was that he didn't behind a scoffer like this like you but why did they need to do it in summer yes it's clear that officers peepin from day rooms couldn't see that the man was not very it's all. for victims of political persecution various name was synonymous with the repressions that swept everything away in the past in the one nine hundred thirty s. those who survive a tyrannical years cannot forget the horrors that plague them in that period the night time whisper of black vans pulling up to the house tenants are branded 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. to much such events with and to the courtier if you're in the night

i was but it shall bear but i still have very vivid memories of them i was so scared that it couldn't fend off the tread of the old pull being with you no matter how hard i try to. have a covert life story is typical of a whole generation her father took part in the one nine hundred seventeen bolshevik revolution as is korea 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 flood a mere land whole families were being arrested. more with this one shows me in prison. as the daughter of anime is of the people you would my father wasn't the only one they had arrested what oh well that's exactly what the judge told me don't or of animists of the people who go. a picturesque region in the caucasus. under stalin

a puzzle was compelled to join georgia. three decades before that celebrity burial had been born here in the village of marco high in the mountains. for nearly forty years atari come teria 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 don't know what love really was a good thing when he grew up his parents and all the time to study their. soviet leaders were fond of vacationing up has here. as he is leader nestor introduced the young hopeful levante beriah to his old friend stalin. to 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 nuss the local a month later he ordered this and other letters to be found and destroyed in their letter various nesta to put in

a word for him so that stalin don't forget the medium those letters of survived i've seen them all. stalin took note of the young activists soon after that barrier was appointed head of the georgian communist party. the need to keep again planting loyalists in camp posts as for the man who had introduced him to stalin beria now considered him a nuisance. in december nine hundred thirty six very invited nestor like oh but to dinner a few hours later suddenly felt sick. what everybody in our pas you knew that he had been for isn't people know what the treasury reported to doctors who said as much i'm sure bods and similar gene if it were eliminated there in them. body was taken from the georgian capital to have has here where it was given a state funeral in sioux homes botanical gardens that was shortly before nine hundred thirty seven the year of the most massive political crackdown in

a soviet union but it was what 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 after his death. an enemy of the people who. live in this signal the start of mass repression. country 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 certain a chicken dad 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 ward out from these basements and shot right here on this in the limestone pits by the sea shore.

yuri bernier has spent his whole life here after he was labeled a son of an enemy of the people he lived through 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 collect the farmers 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 when i was a schoolboy i saw barry a several times that he would come here with a wedding load of border guards and the area always wore eyeglasses 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 of has in families got together even mentioning the names of relatives branded as enemies of

the people with dangerous nowadays when guests visit yuri benny as grants and hands on a vessel in the form of a horn reserved for special occasions. the guests drink wine from simple looking glasses at the first toast has no festive undertones they're going to drink wine to commemorate the victims of the repressions unleashed by stalin and beria. today we remember all the rules who were oppressed in the prime of their lives the time has come for us to name their names without having to worry about a new credit down there. let us never forget them in. moscow the bianca square house number two. this is the headquarters of the soviet

union secret police beriah took charge of this government department and nine hundred thirty its afternoon going to the soviet capital from georgia it was originally educated as a builder but unlike his fanatical predecessors he took a more practical approach to. in the one nine hundred thirty eight and the reign of terror it changed under beriah would it didn't come to an end but was less massive in scope and it was no focused on particular tasks there it's a good old system and incorporated into the soviet economy. one of lot of mere lenin's associates until nov of cinco was executed in one thousand thirty eight his son anton spent nearly thirteen years in the good life he knows from his own experience how soviet economic progress was achieved in the 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 work for twelve hours on

end of the bus the round trip from the barracks and back behind green exhausted in mates just go out into a plank bed and the whole time they were played with thoughts about whether their wives and children would not be thrown out into the street simply because they were weighted to an enemy of the people and. barea 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 arrested as an excuse to make them work in those outfits were horrible they saw it as a chance to be released and of decides they were better chances for survival there than in a regular prison camp scientists were given better food and the work was not as

harsh. one of various top secret projects was a toxicological love or tree of the n.k.v.d. . here scientists tested poisons on people sentenced to death 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. there it was late to tell i received instructions from above who goes and yes it was stolen he told him to supply the n.k.v.d. with poisons tested on humans. today

a significant number of russian communists are campaigning to have beria exhilarated they feel he was one of stalin's best managers but modern day communists preferred not to mention the price people paid for various kind of order . which various treated people as nothing but cards 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 a soviet atomic bomb. ordered area 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. download

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thousand forty nine at the same a tense pests i think has extend the command bunker gave the order to settle. the waves none of those present and had ever seen anything like it we were is done there hundred 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 for poor performance the cartoonist was executed as an enemy of the people back in one nine hundred thirty s. beriah didn't think nearly as much a few more as he did of flattery. and to date on are one such person whose deeds are immense his name is love green tea period. and if

i'm feeling a little bit confused fifteenth though it seems that it's common to be praised in such music. and i have to live with it. one of the few people who have been guts to collide with beria head on was dr george or kept pizza who would later be awarded the nobel prize in physics it was one of the chiefs of the soviet atomic project and its initial stages when the scientists complained to stalin about beria he instantly became the worst enemy and bury as ice. covered bierria as the conductor's baton he stands for that's not bad but then the scientist must play first violin the conductors job is not only willing to put on but also understanding discord understanding scores is not very a strong point. army general who used to tell. the story she was in stalin's office

wonder eberstein 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 close associates with barry at the forefront . of the spoiled relations with all those who had been in stalin's inner circle everything he did after stalin's the voice the fact that he was pursuing his own agenda. is interior ministry even collect a 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. beria was dubbed the foreign spy acting against the interests of the soviet union the charge of typically been used against most of the

political prisoners that ended up and gulags. the well being this is how i felt about barry's arrest. by talking about god knows inappropriate. well i said that time i think got bored and providence and yet when i made inquiries in the commandments office about whether i was in for amnesty the report i was surprised to hear this is he'll be ok as the red. 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 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 we knew albury came to the window to be with us to give the commotion that no mention was hit by machine gunfire it was a military like approach. 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 saberi ensuring his trial. broke into tears after burial made a drawing going to. kill edges while you were being a silly girl if some weakening had got hold of you it would have given you your due it's all those words some of burial better than anything else. he surprised me of the joys of childhood in teeth as you look into his evil teeth taken out of his moral characteristics he's a pervert and men who molest children. do

you admit that you committed a crime against hers though. i only admit that i shouldn't have had contact with the us dollar 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 area met his grandmother in one of the secret towns in the urals when he was on a business trip there where. comics lived in barracks that used to be behind these buildings there is a fair chance that my grandmother was among them. wearing t. berry often showed up in the street. more likely again on if you met my grandfather

here. later he fathered a son my father as can their very both. never saw his father he was raised by adoptive parents who never discussed 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 the barrier is his grandfather. who could move some time ago i was the one 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 peters no i said i feel i'm none other than a beary and i'm dead sure of it without any tests. episodes of rape and extra marital relations have little effect on the outcome of various trial is former associates in the kremlin had already sealed his fate shortly before he was arrested prosecutors 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 if you have a vicious attitude towards others be ready to face the same attitude in return in this case spirit filled victim to the lawless system that he himself had protested and developed a show of you were. 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 its 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. cameron stalin the polish prisoners of war are trying to

continue their counter revolutionary activity everybody's 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 bierria people's commie sorrow internal affairs it will no doubt these uk was sent to guard commands i'm sure 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 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 ballots the father of

renowned polish film director i'm jay vida was among the polls shot by barrios man . do you think that i mean unlike my father most of those taken prisoner were not career offices rather they represented the polish intelligentsia. they were university professors high school teachers actors and artists among them the insurance was who had been drafted into the army in one hundred thirty nine year old general. yet another project thought up by various supersedes of an interest in a conflict between georgians and has eons in the caucasus on his orders hundreds of families were forcibly moved from georgia to up has here and in one thousand thirties and forties following the devastation caused by mass repressions their bad triggered the erosion and simulation of the passing population. the houses

that were built under the projects have survived or not has he is rural areas to this day but nobody lives there now. not old in the village residence 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 up has here. their publics infrastructure was almost completely destroyed. today there is a monument to those who died in the war and mass oppressions outside each village. as for burial there are no monuments to him alive has he and now there is not even a trace of his parental house in the village of mecca.

normal love run through various hells used to stand behind all of this ruined building where you are there. nothing but tall weeds grow. neither man nor beast eventually through their. people enough has to 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 of rented beriah are ruins and waste land from nothing else .

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