Beria's liquidation: who would benefit from his death?
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For almost half a century, Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was associated with massive illegal repression of 1930-1950-ies, mass executions and deportations, his reputation as an arch-villain was entrenched. However, today its activity is not as clearly defined by many as it was in the Soviet years. It still remains a mystery to what happened with Beria in the second half of June 1953.
According to the official version, 26 June 1953, the year of Lawrence Beria, was arrested, at the plenum of the CPSU Central Committee was informed about his case as a matter of enemy of the people. In late December, after the end of the investigation, he was shot.
Writer and journalist Elena Prudnikova is inclined to believe that in reality, at the time of the trial, Beria was long dead. None of the trustworthy people saw him alive after June 26th. The author of publications on historical There is every reason to believe that Beria was not arrested, but killed.
What are the reasons for this version of Prudnikova? Why Khrushchev, according to the journalist, ordered Beria to be killed, thereby committing a coup d'état? What role in the elimination of Beria played the Leningrad case? Why Khrushchev, along with his team of conspirators marked the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union? Answers to these and other questions:
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