seven thirty am in moscow these here are the headlines dropping the dollar china again raises the possibility of a new global reserve currency after washington lets the u.s. credit rating slip standard and poor's downgraded america's prized aaa status after losing confidence in the way the latest debt ceiling standoff has happened. hundreds of thousands of israelis return to the streets across the country i grew by the high cost of living at an affordable housing crisis some protesters are

comparing the demonstrations to those that happened during happened in neighboring egypt as they call for widespread reforms to ease social inequality. the u.s. suffers its and biggest single loss of life in the afghan conflict as a nato nato helicopters reportedly down by the taliban thirty u.s. troops including some from the same unit that killed osama bin laden died along with seven afghan soldiers. next we open secret soviet files and take a look at the infamous gulag prison camp system our special report coming up. 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 steroid. state security martial labyrinthine baryonic

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 leonti 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 jurist

everybody there is also no thing first category which means execution. i confess that all those resolutions were approved by myself in person. the forty volumes of the bay area case which fill a couple of such ills. here you can find records of interrogations and to dykeman's that for some reason most of these materials have not yet been declassified. the beria case is a peculiar one. to be found normally prisoners have their pictures taken from the front and. on the other hand. 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 who would be somebody was indeed taken for a question in the summer where he always wore a cloak and hat and his face was hidden behind a scoffer like this let you but why did they need to do it in summer yet it's clear that officers peep in from green 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 the trauma of years cannot forget the horrors that played them in that period the night and whisper of black lambs 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 come. to think so much such events would and to the courtyard during the

night i was but it but i still have very vivid memories of them i was so scared that it couldn't find off the tread belt will be made so no matter how hard i try to. get it back over us life story is typical of a whole generation her father took part in the one nine hundred seventeen bolshevik revolution as a 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 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 wasn't the only one they had arrested what oh well that's exactly what the judge told me don't or of anime's of the people who go. a picturesque region in the caucasus. under stalin as it 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 taria taught at the local school it stood side by side with a house where the beria family lived. the whole thing i can't remember anything negative about the lover and he was a good bit when he grew up i'll just go and settle down to study their. soviet leaders were fond of vacationing up has here. as he is leader nestor introduced the young hopeful love renting beriah to his old friends talent. two met here in one thousand thirty one by that time barry had already shown his worth by working in local state security agencies. where we wrote a letter to nuss the local lady he ordered this and all the letters that he found and destroyed in their letter various nester to put in

a word for him so that stalin been forget 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 camp posts as for the man who had introduced him to stalin beria now considered him a nuisance. and december nineteenth thirty six very invited nestor loco but to dinner a few hours later suddenly felt sick. what everybody in our pas you knew that he had been for isn't that people know what the treasury prefer to doctors who say it is much a bunch of gods and some are gee if i were eliminated there in then. body was taken from the georgian capital to has the word was given a state funeral in sioux whom satanical 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 away. from tbilisi but he didn't turn out for it i think he was afraid of retribution afterwards doesn't recall with declared an enemy of the people who. live in this signal 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 dad 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 a condemned ward out from these basements and shot right here on this spot in the limestone pits by the seashore.

yury barrier 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 look at me when i was a schoolboy i saw the area several times 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 and 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 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 but the first toast has no festival undertones they're going to drink wine to commemorate the victims of their oppressions unleashed by stalin and beria. today we remember all the rules were pressed in the prime of their lives but the time has come for us to name their names without having to worry bout 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 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 was less massive in scope for you and was no focused on particular tasks there it's a system and incorporated into the soviet economy. one of lot of your lemons associates until of cinco was executed in one thousand thirty eight his son anton spent nearly thirteen years in the go 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 you know each day we work for twelve hours on end or bust their own tree from the barracks and back behind green exhausted even means just go into a plank bed the whole time they were played 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 and 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 it was a negative experience for scientists 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. besides they were in 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 lot 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 and politically motivated assassinations . the laboratory head is on record is reporting that. 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 until i received instructions from above who goes and yes it was stolen his told him to supply the n.k.v.d.

with poisons tested on humans but i didn't and i did you. 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 period 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 all. sorted before the end of world war truth burial was given a top secret job. overseeing the development of the soviet atomic bomb. stalin 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. will

. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered wealthy british scientists on. the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on our key. kazakstan the secret military facilities 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 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 wrong. on august twenty ninth one thousand forty nine a similar tests i think has extended the command bunker gave the order to set off. the air waves three none of those russians had ever seen anything like it and we were is done again how to the explosion but we remain shocked for a long time now. this is one of the caricaturist depicting various 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 jay we honor one such person whose deeds are immense his name is love green tea period . and this time feeling a little bit confused if truth though it seems that it's common to be praised in such basic as and i have to live with it. one of the few people who had begun to collide with beria head on was dr pilcher culprits 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 just alan 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 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 still in office when very interesting and again person could be sat there is shouted i've had enough of him it's high time she 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 beriah 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 boy so 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. beria was dubbed the foreign spy acting against the interests of the soviet union the charge a typically been used against most of the political prisoners that ended up and grew lax. this is how i felt it out there is a rest. talking about god knows an appropriate. well i said that time i thank god and providence when i made inquiries in the commandments office about whether i wasn't 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 chinese ian embassy in russia from the one nine hundred thirty s. until his arrest it was lebron to bury his residence one 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 crèche with a gate leading into the courtyard security personnel rushed out of the house to see what was going on we very came to the window to meet with us to get a commotion that moment she 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 a girl living in a house across the road from the mansion of the interior minister saberi ensuring his trial. she broke into tears after burying made a drawing of. a legend is said while you were being a silly girl if some weakling had got hold of you it would have given you know you do it all those words some of beriah better than anything else. he surprised me of the joys of childhood in teeth as you look into his evil deeds

take america's moral characteristics he's a pervert and men who molest children. do you admit that you committed a crime against jews dollar. i only if that i shouldn't have had contact with the us dollar but i supporters are 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 beriah met his grandmother in one of the secret towns in the urals when he was on a business trip where. comics lived in barracks that used to be

behind these buildings there is a fair chance that my grandmother was among them. labyrinthine very often showed up in the street. more likely again on 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 see lauching cause a fraud. is one of the most active defenders of various names and he is still quite sure the barrier is his grandfather. who could move some time ago i was in playing with the a.t.o. 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 i feel 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 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 barry as too dangerous to let him live. lives of the whole affair came to a logical conclusion you think if you have a vicious residue towards others be ready to face the same attitudes in return in this case paris fell victim to the lawless system that he himself had protested and developed to show over the world. one of the areas most brutal deeds came to light not long ago after the declassification of special archives this folder containing the so-called catchin 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 it's necessary to subject them to execution as a last sanction of the law signed the area people's commissar when surnow affairs it will no doubt these are was sent to 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 thousand thirty nine between the soviet

union and hitler's germany to divide poland into spheres of influence. thousands of captive pows found themselves in soviet camps soon afterwards the soviet repression machine jettisoned that unnecessary and burdensome ballots the father of a now and polish film director on jay vida was among the polls shot by perry as man . thundered you think 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 he in short all those who had been drafted into the army in nineteen thirty nine you know didn't. get another project thought up by beria sowed the seeds of an enter ethnic conflict between georgians and has ins in the caucasus on his orders hundreds of families were forcibly moved from georgia to pass here

and in one thousand thirty's and forty's following the devastation caused by mass repressions there that 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 enough 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 abkhazia . 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 from barea 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 normal love ran through various house used to stand behind almost ruined building our bedroom now with nothing but little weeds grow older. neither man nor beast there venture 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 ranchi beriah are ruins and wasteland and nothing else.

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