"The Death of Stalin" (2017), Armando Iannucci’s second feature film, portrays the struggle for power following Stalin’s death over control of the USSR between Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), ...

So it was natural that they should be compatible. Beria came to Moscow late in the 1930s and quickly rose to power which some said was second only to the power of Stalin. The fact that they were ...

Former national security adviser John Bolton compared Kash Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's head of the secret Soviet police, in a statement to NBC.

Lavrentiy Beria was a truly evil man. From 1938 to 1953, Beria was chief of Joseph Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD. Under Beria, the NKVD conducted purges of Communist Party loyalists and ...

Beria was Minister of Internal Affairs — which absorbed the MGB after Stalin’s death — and first deputy prime minister. Most important, he controlled an army of sorts, armed personnel who ...

Stalin’s secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria, once famously said: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” In other words, Beria said he could produce evidence against anyone of ...

So it's an indication of the importance Stalin gave to the Soviet atomic bomb program that he appointed Beria to head it on August 7, 1945, the day after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The Death of Stalin is a blacker-than-black comedy about the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and how they jockey for power after the demise of Joseph ...

Malenkov, Beria, Molotov—the men who rule Russia today—were all at Stalin’s side on the night the “plot” was disclosed. Why had they now reversed themselves ?

Mrs. Mesta adds that as far as any responsible people knew, Beria was not a Jew. “But it seems that anti-Semitism which Stalin had stirred up just before he died was now helping to justify the ...

So it's an indication of the importance Stalin gave to the Soviet atomic bomb program that he appointed Beria to head it on August 7, 1945, the day after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.