you're watching archie on news now and with the week's top stories the aaa that's now america's accounting anxiety its credit crowd is taking taken down a wrong in the ratings as investors shutter over how the debt ceiling raise was handled. and it rounded off a rocky week on the global markets with wall street's worst week in over two years worsened by europe's doubts and fears of a second possible american recession. as egypt's former president goes on trial for

mounts killing and corruption a weary public see the replacement regime fowling to meet the revolutions demands. but in neighboring israel the reform rallies swelled to quarter of a million people in television angry that the government's let the living color contact. next we open secret soviet files and take a look at the infamous coup on prison camp system that's in our special report next on our team. 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 destroyed. 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 of mt 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 forced 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 saying first category which means education.

i confess that all those resolutions were approved by myself in person. the forty volumes of the barrett case which still a couple of such chills you hear you can find records of interrogations and didn't mince through for some reason most of these materials have not yet been declassified. but beriah case is a peculiar one. to be found normally prisoners have their pictures taken from the front side. on the other hand contains only this photo it looks as though it was taken from a family album. 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. well baby who was the somebody was indeed taken for questioning in summer where he always wore a cloak and a hat and his face was hidden behind a scoffer like this like you but why did they need to do it in summer yes it's clear that officers peak in from say rooms couldn't see that the man was not bury it all. for victims of political persecution areas name was synonymous with the repressions that swept everything away in their path in the one nine hundred thirty s. those who survived the tropical years cannot forget the horrors that plague them in the 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. censure van switch and to the courtyard during the night i was but a child then but i still have very vivid memories of them i was so scared they

couldn't fend off the training ground will be made so no matter how hard you try to pull. back over 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. more with 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 what i was that's exactly what the judge told me the answer of anime's of the people who go. the 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 murphy all high in the mountains. for nearly forty years atari come teria 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 lover and he was a good deal when he grew up his parents and all the town to study their. soviet leaders were fond of vacationing up has here. as he is leader nestor loco but introduced the young hopeful levante beriah to his old friends talent the two met here in one thousand thirty one by the time barry had already shown his worth by working in local state security agencies. are very wrote a letter to nuss the local lady he ordered this and all the letters that he found the destroyed in their letter various ness that the put in a word for him so that stalin didn't forget the medium of those what is of survived

i've seen them all. down 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 very invited nestor like oh but to dinner a few hours later suddenly felt sick. what everybody in our positing knew that he had been for isn't it and people know to date the two doctors who said as much a bunch of bugs and similar gee if i were eliminated their own them. body was taken from the georgian capital to pass here where it was given a state funeral in suha tentacle 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. from tbilisi but he didn't turn out for it i think he was afraid of retribution afterwards doesn't call 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 year in the one nine hundred thirty s. local steer clear of this building just outside town. writer sergei checked the dead sea 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 worn 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 a stigma for fifteen years he was stripped of many rights such as being barred from studying at a legal institute. it's 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 a farce 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 berio always wore eye glasses who 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 of 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 their oppressions unleashed by stalin and beria yesterday we remember the old 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 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 thirty it after moving to the soviet capital from georgia it was originally educated as a builder but i like 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 or you would it was no focused on particular tasks there it's the gulag 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 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 when the each day we worked for twelve hours

on end was their own three prime the barracks and back behind green exhausted he meets just collapsed 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 related to an enemy of the people but in that. area 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 the. birth of lymphoma 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 and of besides they were better chances for survival there than in a regular prison camp the scientists were given better food and the work was not as harsh. one of various top secret projects was a toxicological love or

a 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 carries 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 until 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 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 prefer not to mention the price people paid for various kind of order. at the border which variously 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 the burial was given a top secret job. overseeing the development of a soviet comic bulk. order beriah to coordinate the cooperation between soviet spies that were hunting out scientific information in the west and the u.s.s.r. was nuclear physicists only a few people knew about various tasks. wealthy

british scientists. margetts why not scandal. why not what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on r.t. . kazakstan the secret military facility 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 power to as soon as possible

with the united states which already have the bomb. the really had to meet the deadline if you don't need a deadline they told us we'll wish you were dead wrong. on august twenty ninth one thousand forty nine at the semi-colon t in sgt test site in kazakstan command bunker if the order to set off. or wave three none of those present had ever seen anything like it we were stunned after the explosion but we remain shocked for a long time now. this is one of the caricature is depicting various style of management here he is showing dressing subordinates down for poor performance. the cartoonist was extradited 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 we honor 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 a state as a friend and i have to live with it. one of the few people who had begun to collide with beria head on was dr pilcher cup 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 he instantly became the worst enemy and bury as ice. covered bierria as 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 discord understanding scores is not very a strong point that the army general who used to tell. the story she was in still in office when very interesting and again kirsten could be. 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 dariya at the forefront . of the spoiled relations all those who had been installing the new 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. beriah was dubbed the foreign spy acting against the interests of the soviet union the charges typically been used against most of the political prisoners that ended up in through lax. this is how i found out there is a rest. talking about god knows inappropriate. well but at that time i think got down to providence when i made inquiries in the commandments office where i was in for amnesty but. i was surprised to hear this you'll be ok so read. central moscow today this building houses the newseum embassy in russia but from the one nine hundred thirty s. until his arrest it was levante barrios residence 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 crèche with a gate leading into the courtyard security personnel rushed out of the house to see what was going on we know very came to the window to investigate the commotion that no mention was hit by machine gunfire it was a military like approach. most historians do not subscribe to the theory one of them nikita petrov has found a girl living in a house across the road from the mansion of the interior minister so beriah during his trial new york city is up to bury him a drawing of a. legend is said well you were being a silly girl if some weakling had got hold of you it would have given you your due it's all those words some of their it better than anything else.

he surprised me of the joys of childhood in his youth as you look into his evil deeds taken over to his moral characteristics he's a pervert and children. do you admit that you committed a crime against jews dollar. i only admit 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 in the torah is former secret police chief is his grandfather according to him varia 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 grandfather was among them. from lorraine teaberry often showed up in the street. more likely of an od he met my grandfather here. later he fathered a son my father is come there a very able of. never saw his father he was raised by adoptive parents who never discuss the matter many still seal a patch and 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 in the plane 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 various trial is 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. for the whole affair came to a logical conclusion you think if you have a vicious as you towards others be ready to face the same attitude in return in this case spirit fell victim to the law a system that he himself had protected and developed a show of you 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 member 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 cameron stalin 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 the ain't the use of sardines it's necessary to subject them to execution as the last sanction of the law signed the area people's commissar when surnow affairs it was no doubt 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 pows found themselves in soviet camps soon afterwards to soviet repression machine jettison that unnecessary and burdensome ballast the father of a now and polish film director and jay fido was among the polls shot by barry as man. that i me i'm like 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 some of them. in short all those who had been drawn to them to the army in one thousand nine hundred thirty nine you don't. get another project thought up by beria so the seeds of an interest in a conflict between georgians and it has eons in the caucasus on his orders hundreds

of families were forcibly moved from georgia to pass here and in one thousand thirties and forties following the devastation caused by mass repressions there that triggered the erosion and simulation of the uprising in population. the houses that were built under the projects have survived an op has he is 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. 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 a pass here. their public 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 of has he him out there is not even a trace of his parental house in the village of america. for your normal love rented various house used to stand behind all of this ruined building where you are there but now i know nothing about tall weeds girl there. neither man nor beast there venture through there the. people of house here 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 live rented beriah are ruins and waste land and nothing else.