What's interesting to me is the courtiers who flock around mad kings. They can be bland apparatchiks like Stalin's Politburo, a mixture of true believers and true monsters, like Lavrentiy Beria. The ...

So the hours ticked by on March 1, 1953, while his household and senior members of the Soviet government, including the dreaded head of Stalin’s secret police, Lavrentiy Beria, waited around.

This not only violates the semi-sacred separation between the White House and the Justice Department; it is reminiscent of Joseph Stalin’s hatchetman Lavrentiy Beria’s dictum: “Show me the ...

This not only violates the semi-sacred separation between the White House and the Justice Department, it is reminiscent of Joseph Stalin’s hatchetman Lavrentiy Beria’s dictum: “Show me the ...

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This not only violates the semi-sacred separation between the White House and the Justice Department; it is reminiscent of Joseph Stalin’s hatchetman Lavrentiy Beria’s dictum: “Show me the ...

In 1937–8, at the height of the Great Terror, Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD, visited Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin no fewer than 278 times for private meetings lasting a total of 834 hours. So far ...

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Born on October 10 1938 in Moscow, the son of a committed communist and officer in the NKVD (predecessor of the KGB), Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky had always appeared destined for a career in Soviet ...