Members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Executed by the Soviet Union: Lavrentiy Beria, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Lavrentiy Beria, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Iona Yakir, Magaza Masanchi, Vasily Blucher, Eduard Berzin, Leon Lichtblau, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Vitaly Markovich Primakov, Gustav Klutsis, Ieronim Uborevich, Nikolai Voznesensky, Sultan Majid Afandiyev, Alexey Kuznetsov, Mikhail Rodionov, Sergei Syrtsov, Daniil Sulimov, Martemyan Ryutin, Levan Agniashvili. Excerpt: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: Russian: 29 March 1899 - 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Soviet politician and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years (1946-1953). Beria was the longest lived and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after World War II. He simultaneously administered vast sections of the Soviet state and served as de facto Marshal of the Soviet Union in command of the NKVD field units, responsible for anti-partisan operations against anti-Soviet ethnic groups and Nazi collaborators, and the apprehension and summary execution of thousands of turncoats, deserters, cowards and suspected malingerers. Beria administered the vast expansion of the Gulag slave labor camps, and was primarily responsible for the Katyn massacre. He also played the decisive role in coordinating the Soviet partisans, developing an impressive intelligence and sabotage network behind German lines, thus contributing mightily to the ultimate Soviet victory. He attended the Yalta Conference with Stalin, who introduced him to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as our Himmler. After the war, he organized the communist takeover of the countries of Central Europe and Eastern Europe, usually through coup d'etat. Beria's uncompromising ruthlessness in his du...