Georgy Malenkov
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Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier and the overall leader of the Soviet Union in March 1953. Shortly thereafter, Malenkov entered into a pow
Official portrait, 1950
Mikhail Kalinin, Georgy Malenkov, Joseph Stalin and Aleksandr Shcherbakov at the commemoration of the 18th anniversary of Lenin's death.
Malenkov on the cover of Time magazine, 23 March 1953
Malenkov and Khrushchev speaking with West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer alongside other members of the Soviet leadership in 1955
Lavrentiy Beria
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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945 during the
Georgy Malenkov
…Gorky once said: 'if the enemy does not surrender, destroy him.' " Dmitrii Sukhanov, Malenkov's personal assistant, later recounted that Malenkov and Lavrentiy Beria "developed a close friendship" during the repressions in Yerevan and that this "formed the basis for their later political alliance." In 1938, Malenkov…
Official portrait, c. 1938–1940
Young Svetlana Stalina sitting on Beria's lap, with Stalin (in the background) and Nestor Lakoba in 1931.
Beria in 1934
Nestor Lakoba, Nikita Khrushchev, Beria and Aghasi Khanjian during the opening of the Moscow Metro in 1936, the same year that Lakoba and Khanjian were killed by Beria.