Lavrentii Beria

[2RHPZ]

Beria Degenerate (http://www.diacritica.com/degenerate/pdf/beriadegenerate.pdf) (.pdf 2.3MB - 64 pages)

.html version (http://www.diacritica.com/degenerate/9/beria.html)

[Kitsune]

Quite nicely written article about the infamous Beria. A long read, but well worth it for those who do not know much about him.
And certainly an eye-opener for people who still are delusional about the nature of the Stalinist era.

[Igor01]

Beriya is certainly one of the most infamous characters of the Stalinist era. Although if we look at his last activities immediately after Stalin's death a very interesting picture emerges.

It appears that Beriya came up with a number of things that don't fit the scheme of an irrational bloodthirsty henchman, among other actions were:


- closing the "mengrel" and "Georgian" cases

- opposing the attempts of relocating Soviet Jews into remote areas

- revoking the strict residency restrictions (passport registration), especially in Moscow and Leningrad

- an initiative to cancel the "voluntary" state bonds purchases for the 1953 bbudget

- an initiative to write a new truer history of USSR's Great Patriotic War

- an initiative to remove the excessive beaurocracy that was stalling scientific and technological innovations

- an inititative to separate the Soviets (elected representative organs) and the Communist party which he suggested should carry out propaganda and ideological tasks

- an initiative to strip the Osoboe Soveschanie (extra-judicial organs of the Ministry of State Security) of the power to render death sentences and terms of imprisonment of 25 years.

- very wide amnesty, especially for those convicted of minor crimes (many were imprisoned for stealing food or systematic tardiness at workplace)

- release and full rehabilitation of a number of high-ranking officials, for example Molotov's wife who was "implicated" in the "Jewish case"

- an initiative to make the national cadre play first roles in various Soviet republics (instead of ethnic Russians), this was especially promoted in Lithuania, Latvia, Belorussia and Western Ukraine; he suggested that all republics should have their own national decorations etc.

- an initiative to stop the practice of using the portraits of living leaders for street "decorations" and celebratory processions

- the next day after Stalin's death he suggested that Stalin's cult of personality should be discussed within the party; soon thereater his name started disappearing from the newspapers, radio and TV; this was done to prepare public for eventual dismantling of the cult in the society as a whole

- an initiative to return the "Northern territories" to Japan

- an initiative to establish friendly relation with Yugoslavia, to acknowledge that it had the right to build its own version of socialism with allowing all forms of property (a big no-no for hardcore Stalinists)

- an inititative to stop the forceful collectivisation of farmers in East Germany, he suggested that the two Germanies should be reunited and become a neutral country with no military alliances with either USSR or the West

- sharp decrease of the Soviet spy activity in the West

- stopping the publications of Stalin's full collection of works

Part of the reason the entire Central Committee turned so against him was their desire for retaining power and having a very cosy life without the uncertainty of Stalin's paranaoidal suspision of periodic purges. Beriya's initiatives seemed to threatened that stability and of course the fact that he had the entire power of the state security organs behind him didn't help.

I am not entirely clear what were Beriya's motives for advancing such radical initiatives, but it would seem that the then Central Committee and Kruschev himself had a very strong interest in making Beriya the proverbial sacrifical goat who along with Stalin was blamed for all the abuses and excesses of the Stalinist era while the same characters that were working hard to implement Stalin's vision during his rule remained in power and beyond any reproach. I hope we see some unbiased and factual research on the matter, I personally find it a very interesting topic.

[Kilgor]

Beriya is certainly one of the most infamous characters of the Stalinist era. Although if we look at his last activities immediately after Stalin's death a very interesting picture emerges.

It appears that Beriya came up with a number of things that don't fit the scheme of an irrational bloodthirsty henchman, among other actions were:

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Errr, maybe because after stalin died, he no longer had the protection and immunity he needed and had to show he was no longer the mass murdering stalinst lacky.

Regardless, he was a monster and it was the right thing that he was put to death. Without real trial or mercy like the countless tens of thousands of his victims.

The accounts of pedophelia are questionable,as this sort of evidence in the soviet union was produced in true owellian fashion in a instant.