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
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.
Georgy Zhukov
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Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as
Lavrentiy Beria
…Stalin's place. By June 1953, Beria was removed from power in a coup organized with the support of his colleagues in the Soviet leadership and Marshal Georgy Zhukov. He was arrested, tried for treason and other offenses, and ultimately executed on 23 December 1953. Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was born in Merkheuli…
Zhukov in 1960
Non-commissioned officer Georgy Zhukov, Russian Imperial Army, 1916
Zhukov as a regimental commander, 1920s
Graduates of the Leningrad Higher Cavalry School (1924/25). Standing in the third row (right to left): 1. Zhukov, 5. Rokossovsky.