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The Fate of the Top Soviet Officials
Lavrentiy Beria: Stalin's Secret Police Chief & Most Hated Man in Russia
14m
Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s feared NKVD chief, oversaw purges, the Gulag system, mass executions like Katyn, and the brutal suppression of dissent across the Soviet Union. Once Stalin’s most trusted enforcer, his reign of terror included torture, rape, and political murders. Discover how one of the most powerful men in the USSR was brought down in a coup and executed without mercy.
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