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files and take a look at the infamous gulag prison camp system that's the subject of our special report next you know. 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 whispers is to be removed from the great soviet encyclopedia and destroyed. state security martial of n.t. beriah used to supervise both the us his source 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. one of the initial charges put against him was force participation in widespread political repression. this list contains the means of thirty six people in beers your instruction tourist everybody there is also an old saying first category which means execution. i confess that all those resolutions were approved by myself in person.

the voltage volumes of the dairy case would fill a couple of such chills. every can find records of interrogations and indictments but 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 case on the other hand contains only this photo it looks as though it was taken from a family album. riser yelena approach 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. well 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 us call for a like this but why did they need to do it in summer yet it's clear that officers peeping from the rooms couldn't see that the man was not beriah 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 of the plague from another period a 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. if it's a much censure violence which answer the courtyard during the night i was but it shouted but i still have very vivid memories of them i was so scared they couldn't handle the tread down will be made 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 thousand seven hundred 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 flatter me atlanta whole families were being arrested. more with 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. 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 a puzzle 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 cantera taught at the local school. it stood side by side with a house with a barrier family lives. i can't remember anything negative about i 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 at has he is leader nestor like obama introduced the young hopeful love renting beriah to his old friends. the two met here in one nine hundred thirty one by that time varia had already shown his worth by working in local state security agencies. very wrote a letter to the national accord lately he ordered this and all the letters that he found the destroy in their letter various nesta to put in a word for him so that stalin don't forget them either 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. 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 mr loco but to dinner a few hours later suddenly felt sick. everybody in our pas you knew that he had been unfortunate but people know to date doctors who say it is much a bunch of bards and similar gee if i were eliminated there in then. body was taken from the georgian capital to have has the word was given a state funeral in sioux homes but tenneco gardens that was shortly before nine hundred thirty seven the year of the most massive political crackdown in a soviet union. it was a hero's funeral the way various him to read from tbilisi but he didn't turn out for it i think he was afraid of retribution after all with a declared 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 steer clear of this building just outside town. writer sergei czech a 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 of the 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 collector farmers the crackdown on enemies of the people in this region was especially harsh all the while stalin and beria vacationed in nearby colleges. when i was a schoolboy i saw the area several times it would come here with a wedding load of border guards the area always wore eyeglasses would go down the road with his hands behind his back it looked like a man wanting to boss everybody around. for many years whenever a 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 is grandson to have eat hands on a vessel in the form of a horn reserved for special occasions. a guests drink wine from simple looking glasses of the first toast has no festive undertones they are going to drink wine

to commemorate the victims of the repressions unleased by stalin and beria. today we remember all the 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. let us never forget them. moscow the bianca 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 unlike his fanatical predecessors he took a more practical approach to. this worked. in the one nine hundred thirty eight and

the reign of terror changed under dariya it didn't come to an end but was less message in scope and would it was no focused on particular tasks barrett took the good old system and incorporated into the soviet economy. one of the tamir lenin's associates until of cinco was executed in one thousand thirty eight as some anton spent nearly thirteen years in the good life 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 plus the round trip from the barracks and back behind green exhausted he means just go into a plank bed and the whole time they were plagued 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 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 was a negative experience for scientists moreover many of them were arrested as an excuse to make them work in those upsets before they saw it as a chance to be released and of decides they were better chances for survival there than in a regular person can move a scientist 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 top soviet leaders authorized the use of such poisons him politically motivated assassinations

. the laboratory head is on record as 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 be there it was later told 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 didn't. today a significant number of russian communists are campaigning to have feria 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 variously treated people as nothing but a 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 a soviet atomic bomb. stalin ordered beriah 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. for . russia. which brightened. someone from feinstein.

who from the start on t.v. dot com. if. they've come. to. terms. from. cassocks down the secret military facility seventy platens twenty one was built under perry s watchful eye. 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 ball. 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 ninth one thousand forty nine assume a plot in specified and has a stamp command bunker gave the order to set off. the air waves three none of those present had ever seen anything like it here we were stunned after the explosion we remain shocked for a long time nass this is one of the caricaturist depicting beriah 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 date me on are 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 places 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 a soviet atomic project and its initial stages when the scientists complained to stalin about beria instantly became the worst enemy in various ice. covered beery ashes the conductor's baton he stands for that's not bad but then this scientist possibly first pilot the conductors job is not only willing to put

on but also understanding the school or understanding scores is not derrius strong point that the army general who has to tell. the story she was in stalin's office when they're interested in and began cursing. there is shouted i've had enough of him it's high time he was dealt with like stalin said firmly i'll take care of it but leave him alone. in the spring of one nine hundred fifty three style and died even though his body had not yet been buried a power struggle unfolded between his close associates with the area at the forefront. of the spoiled relations with all those who had been in stallings inner circle everything he did after the stalin's death points to 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. beriah was dubbed the foreign spy acting against the interests of a soviet union a charge of typically been used against most of the political prisoners that ended up in through likes. this is how i found out there is a rest. talking about god knows an appropriate. well but at that time i thank god and providence when i made inquiries in the commandments office where i was in for amnesty. i was surprised a few days he'll be ok so red. central moscow today this building houses the china sea an embassy in russia but from the one nine hundred thirty s. until his arrest it was love rented various 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 pressure the gate lead into the courtyard security personnel rushed out of the house to see what was going on we know mary came to the window to investigate the commotion and at that moment she was hit by machine gun fire 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 the broken city is up to bury him a drawing of a. well you would be a silly girl if some weakening had got hold of you it 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 and youth as you look into his evil deeds

taken over to ignore a characteristic he's a pervert and the man who molests children. that you committed a crime against whose dollar. i 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 area met his grandmother in one of the secret towns in the urals when he was on a business trip there. comics lived in the areas that he used to be

behind these buildings there is a fair chance that my grandfather was among them. lorraine tiberius often showed up in the street. and the more likely it or not he met my grandfather here. later he fathered a son my father is come there a very beautiful. never saw his father he was raised by adoptive parents who never discuss the matter many still feel approaching because 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 for 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 back up with official peepers no my siddur feel i'm none other than a beary and i'm dead sure of it without any tests being. 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. for 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 in this case spirit filled victim to the laws 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 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 cameron stalin the polish prisoners of war are trying to continue their accounts or revolutionary activity everybody's eagerly looking forward to their release to be able to join the struggle against the soviet government n.k.v.d. of the use of sardines are necessary to subject them to execution as the last sanction of the law signed the area people's commissar with internal affairs it will no doubt these are one thing documents i'm sure authorised various proposal to pick some 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 palace a father of renowned polish film director and j. vida was among the poles shot by various man. that any unlike my father most of those taken prisoner were not career officers rather they represented the polish intelligentsia that they were university professors high school teachers actors and artists among them. in short all those who had been drafted into the only in one nine hundred thirty nine. yet another project thought by beria sowed the seeds of an interest in a conflict between georgians and up has ins in the caucasus on his orders hundreds of families were forcibly moved from georgia drought has here in the one nine

hundred thirty s. and forty's following the devastation caused by mass oppressions there that triggered the erosion and simulation of the uprising and population. the houses that were built under the project 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 has here . the republican 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 nashville. for your normal love rented various else used to stand behind all of his ruined building where you are there now nothing but tall weeds girl there. neither man nor beast there venture through their. people in a posse or respects long running through dish and 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 time command of renting beriah are ruins and waste land and nothing else.

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