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anti-government protesters in the israel calling for the prime minister to stand down are going on reported by the international media. and up next a special report on the soviet gulag system do stay with us. 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. beriah 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 vere's your instruction to arrest everybody there is also no saying first category which means education. i confess that all those resolutions were approved by myself in person.

the voltage volumes of the barrett case which still a couple of such chills. here you can find records of interrelations ended eichmanns for some reason most of these materials have not yet been declassified. the bay area case is a peculiar one. to be found normally prisoners have their pictures taken from the front and. the other hand contains only this photo it looks as though it was taken from a family album. 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. well they do with his own body was indeed taken for questioning in summer where he always wore a cloak and a hat and his face was hidden behind a scoff at the like this like you but why did they need to do it in summer yes it's

clear that officers people from they rooms couldn't see that the man was not bare it's all. for victims of political persecution barrios name was synonymous with the repressions that swept everything away in the past in the one nine hundred thirty s. those who survived the trauma of years cannot forget the horrors that plague them in that period and they can 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. simply to much essential violence which and to the courtyard during the night i was but a child there but i still have very vivid memories of them i was so scared that i couldn't fend off the treading down to put you into no matter how hard it trying to . call his life story is typical of

a whole generation her father took part in the one nine hundred seventeen bolshevik revolution as a 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 all families were being arrested. in this one shows me in prison. as the daughter of anime is of the people you would know my father was and the only one they had arrested which what i was and 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 up as it was compelled to join georgia. three decades before that celebrity barrier 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 beria family lives. i can't remember anything negative about the lover and he was a good kid when he grew up his parents until tell him to study their. soviet leaders were fond of vacationing up has here. has he is leader nestor like obama introduced the young hopeful libretti beriah to his old friends talent the two met here in one thousand thirty one by the time varia had already shown his worth by working in local state security agencies. very wrote a letter to the local lady 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 didn't forget to meet him those what is 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. immediately began 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 barry invited nestor loco but to dinner a few hours later suddenly felt sick. everybody not positive knew that he had been poisoned people know what to eat so you've got two doctors who say it is much i'm sure bugs and similar gee if i were eliminated there and then. body was taken from the georgian capital to have has the word 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 the soviet union. it was a hero's funeral the way very a simple read from tbilisi but he didn't turn up for it i think he was afraid of retribution after all with a declared an enemy of the people. and this signal the start of mass repression.

country is a black sea resort in the past here 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 provision. as soon as all the paperwork was signed off on the condemned the woman walked out from these basements and shot right here on this spot 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 with a 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 it 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 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 for the first toast has no festive undertones they are going to drink wine to commemorate the victims of the repressions on leased by stalin and beria yesterday we remember all the rules were pressed in the prime of their lives the time has come for us to name their names without having to worry bugging you crackdown there. 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 us government department in one thousand thirtieth's after moving 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. as for. the nine hundred thirty eight and the reign of terror it changed under beriah it didn't come to an end but it was less message in scope and it was no focused on particular tasks barrett took the good old system and incorporated it into the soviet economy. one of lot of your lemons associates and tone of cinco was executed in one nine hundred 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 one thousand nine hundred and the price paid for it he worked at numerous john construction sites and was almost blind when he left prison camp you know each day we worked for twelve hours on end the round trip from the barracks and back toward the hungry and exhausted he means just go out into a plank bed 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 waited to an enemy of the people or a. 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 and one of them. having to work in confinement it was a negative experience for scientists moreover many of them were as an excuse to make them work in those outfits before they saw it as a chance to be released. 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 level or three 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. would be there it was late to tell i received instructions from above who goes and you guessed it was stolen he told him to supply the n.k.v.d. with poisons tested on humans but i did in the. 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

. at the border which various treated people as nothing but 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. sorted before the end of world war two the burial was given a top secret job. overseeing the development of the soviet atomic bomb. 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. hungry

for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on our t.v. . from. kazakstan the secret military facilities semi platens twenty one was built under barriers watchful our. initial preparations for secret tests got underway by the summer of nine hundred forty nine. the aim was to achieve nuclear parity as soon as possible with the united states which already had the bomb. they didn't 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 nine hundred forty nine a sim a test site and has a stand command bunker gave the order to settle.

here we none of those present had ever seen anything like it here we were is done. for the explosion but we remain shocked for a long time nice 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 eight beriah didn't think nearly as much of humor as he did of flattery. and today the owner one such person whose deeds are immense and his name is love green tea period. and if 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 had the guts to collide with beria head on was dr george or 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 will ding the baton but also understanding discord understanding scores is not very a strong point. army general who is to tell. the story she was in stalin's office when very interesting and again kirsten it sounds like there is shouted i've had

enough of him or 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 barry at the forefront . of the spoiled relations all those who had been in stalin's inner circle everything he did after stalin's the of course the fact that he was pursuing his own agenda. is interior ministry even collected 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 levante beriah was dubbed the foreign spy acting against the interests of the soviet union a charge a typically been used against most of the political prisoners that ended up in crew

likes. that. this is how i felt about there is a rest. we're talking about god knows inappropriate. well i said that time i think got into providence when i made inquiries in the commandments office whether i was in for amnesty. i was surprised to hear this is he'll be ok so red. central moscow today this building houses the chinese the an embassy in russia but from the one nine hundred thirty s. until his arrest it was libretti barrios residence. of his relative 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 crèche with a gate leading into the courtyard security personnel rushed out of the house to see what was going on meanwhile there

a came to the window to my best to give the commotion that no mention was hit by machine gun fire it was a military like a punch. 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 jury in his trial. broke into tears after burial made a drawing of the colored illegible well you would be a silly girl if some weakling had got hold of you he would have given you know you do it all those would 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 who took his moral characteristics he's a pervert and then a molester children.

unit that you committed a crime against or stolen. by only if 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 approaching 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 where they are comics lived in barracks that he used to be behind these buildings there is a fair chance that my grandfather was among them. labyrinthine period often showed up in the street. and the more likely it and not he met my grandfather here. later he fathered a son my father is come there very both. never saw

his father he was raised by adoptive parents who never discuss the matter many still seal a package and go as 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 in 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 know my sit a few i'm none other than a beary and i'm dead sure of it without any tests. when 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.

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 but in this case spirit fell victim to the law a system that he himself had protested and developed to show over the world. 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 to. 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 the aim kavi deal the use of sardines and necessary to subject them to execution as the last sanction of the law signed the area people's commissar when certain affairs. no doubt these are was sent to documents i'm sure authorised various proposal to fix a cute 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 and jay vida was among the poles shot by barriers man

. that any 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. 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 so the seeds of an intrepid conflict between georgians and i pad scenes in the caucasus on his orders hundreds of families were forcibly moved from georgia to have highs here in the one thousand thirty's and forty's following the devastation caused by mass repressions their back triggered the erosion and simulation of the passing population. the houses that were built under the project have survived or not has is rural areas to this day but nobody lives there now. village

residents still refer to them as various tells us the aim of the resettlement policy was to make sure that as many georgians as possible were settled enough causing 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 that has yet. their publics 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 alive has he and now there is not even a trace of his parental house in the village of america. for your normal love run through various else used to stand behind all his ruling

building are there. nothing but tall weeds grow older. neither man nor beast they venture through their. people in a has zero respect long running traditions in accordance with one of them dead people deserve even praise or no mention at all the only reminder to this day of stalin's right time command of ranchi beriah are ruins and waste land and nothing else.