Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD (Soviet secret police) under Stalin. He has been unfairly besmirched by revisionist liberal historians to have been some sexual deviant sadist mass-murderer and leader of mass torture campaigns. In reality, he was instrumental in ending political torture in the USSR and had his predecessor executed for using torture during interrogations.
He was an old-guard Bolshevik and fiercely loyal to Stalin. There was some talk of him being Stalin’s successor as the chairman of the CPSU. Khruschev and his clique then orchestrated a coup d’etat that led to a near-complete destruction of Stalin’s legacy and executions of those loyal to Stalin and Marxism-Leninism, Beria included. Just like Stalin, his legacy of being a brilliant intelligence officer and abolitionist of torture was tarnished and destroyed through claims from Khruschev that he was a sexual deviant, sadist and Stalin’s torturous goon, and perhaps even that he personally assassinated Stalin. I recommend Khruschev Lied by Grover Furr to learn more – the majority of that work is dedicated to debunking lies about Stalin but he does talk about Beria.
Sorry to necromance this thread but I was wanting to find out more information about Lavrentiy Beria and I want to believe that he’s still a dedicated bolshevik. Its just that there are things said about him like starting a coup in Soviet Georgia or had supporters that were arrested for corruption but this might be unrelated or further slander to Beria and I have read Khrushchev Lied a bit but I should read more.
Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD (Soviet secret police) under Stalin. He has been unfairly besmirched by revisionist liberal historians to have been some sexual deviant sadist mass-murderer and leader of mass torture campaigns. In reality, he was instrumental in ending political torture in the USSR and had his predecessor executed for using torture during interrogations.
He was an old-guard Bolshevik and fiercely loyal to Stalin. There was some talk of him being Stalin’s successor as the chairman of the CPSU. Khruschev and his clique then orchestrated a coup d’etat that led to a near-complete destruction of Stalin’s legacy and executions of those loyal to Stalin and Marxism-Leninism, Beria included. Just like Stalin, his legacy of being a brilliant intelligence officer and abolitionist of torture was tarnished and destroyed through claims from Khruschev that he was a sexual deviant, sadist and Stalin’s torturous goon, and perhaps even that he personally assassinated Stalin. I recommend Khruschev Lied by Grover Furr to learn more – the majority of that work is dedicated to debunking lies about Stalin but he does talk about Beria.
Sorry to necromance this thread but I was wanting to find out more information about Lavrentiy Beria and I want to believe that he’s still a dedicated bolshevik. Its just that there are things said about him like starting a coup in Soviet Georgia or had supporters that were arrested for corruption but this might be unrelated or further slander to Beria and I have read Khrushchev Lied a bit but I should read more.