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.

Beria's liquidation: who would benefit from his death?




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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    1. Underwater hunter
      +25
      24 July 2019 20: 33
      Of course, they killed, as did Stalin, and Khrushchev did it, who began the collapse of the USSR, a powerful state that was far ahead of time in its structure ..

      And Beria, was a very talented leader who always achieved the tasks ..
      1. +10
        24 July 2019 22: 21
        What did they leave behind And In Stalin and L P Beria?

        What remains after NS Khrushchev?
        In the Urals, the line was taken from night to night for bread .. corn .. on the hand with a chemical pencil they wrote a blackened number ..
        1. -3
          26 July 2019 11: 10
          Space, mass housing, the development of virgin lands (collected 85 million tons of grain, and after the development of 125). But the main thing is that he removed the Georgian mafia from power and weakened the noose around the neck of the people.
          1. -3
            28 July 2019 07: 57
            Quote: Arzt
            virgin land development (collected 85 million tons of grain, and after the development of 125)

            I’m embarrassed to ask how are we collecting 135 now without virgin land and without Ukraine?
            In 2017, a record crop for the entire history was harvested in Russia - 135,3 million tons of grain (in 2016 - 123 million tons of grain)
            1. -3
              28 July 2019 20: 38
              Productivity has grown. At the time of Khrushchev, it was up to 10 centners per hectare, now over 40. Fertilizers, seed quality, crop rotation, etc.
    2. Quote: Underwater Hunter
      Of course, they killed, as did Stalin, and Khrushchev did it, who began the collapse of the USSR, a powerful state that was far ahead of time in its structure ..

      And Beria, was a very talented leader who always achieved the tasks ..

      ***
      Yes, Stalin was killed ... otherwise, he would have lived today ... and another hundred years ... two hundred ... and he would have ruled with Ivan 4 and Peter 1 ... if they had not been killed too .... they would also live ... four hundred years ... five hundred .... until on the go they scattered molecules from antiquity ....
      And Beria, was a very talented leader ... a very talented villain ...
      Khrushchev was a very stupid leader ... a very stupid villain ...
      One company ...

      "Lavrenty Palych Beria got out of confidence, and comrade Malenkov kicked him."
      1. +4
        25 July 2019 02: 24
        "But what are you going to do, eh!"
        Someone, remove the BBC Lt. Col. from the site!
      2. +2
        25 July 2019 06: 43
        I already wrote, because you did not become a colonel, that you are carrying all nonsense.
    3. -35
      24 July 2019 21: 01
      For decades, Georgians in power have exterminated Russian people on their own land. Millions of people!
      The executioner was shot, just as he did, without trial, without a lawyer, without publicity. He got what he deserved. Those who did this are no less bastards. But that was their role. Bastards, destroy the bastards.
      Now they are shouting about poor demography, demographic holes ... The retirement age has been raised for everyone, for men in particular. Let the young people think about it.
      1. Underwater hunter
        +23
        24 July 2019 21: 12
        Quote: Gabriel
        For decades, Georgians in power have exterminated Russian people on their own land. Millions of people!

        Yeah, they destroyed it so much that in 1940 it was 194 ml in the USSR and 65 ml in the 242th .. and the population grew right up to the 90s .. And this, taking into account the most bloody war in history .. And how are things under the current government?
        1. +6
          24 July 2019 22: 25
          Quote: Underwater Hunter
          And what about the current government?

          After the war, they gave birth a lot, because we were confident in our future and the bright future of children (we were born to make a fairy tale come true). And every day they were convinced of it, just looking around.
          Today, to awaken a sense of pride in the country, you have to close the curtains and turn on federal TV, and give birth to second or third children in order to pay off the mortgage with the help of "matkapital", and children in the future will return this "gift" to the state in a hundredfold amount in taxes.
          1. +2
            25 July 2019 06: 03
            ..Children gave birth at all times for Myself! And if the state financially helps parents what’s wrong with that ... You think when the USSR it was easy for a young specialist to raise a child by 115 rubles after a university ... by one salary ... They helped everyone grandfathers and grandmothers giving away strengths and money .. The apartment could be obtained in 20 years ... .. ... My wife was on maternity leave, I had to earn some money wherever I needed ... There weren’t normal diapers, it’s expensive to buy a stroller .. I can’t get a bed .. These things were inherited from friends and relatives ..SSSR was not p it ..Seychas also spoon feed ..But not have a head, and the desire to earn!
            1. +3
              25 July 2019 07: 42
              Directly about my life, and about the salary of 115 rubles, and about a loan on TV. And they overcame everything, it was difficult, but they raised children, and I do not regret it. If God had given again, from the beginning, then he would have taken it with great joy. The country made sense in everything. And therefore we could not believe that our rulers could simply throw us. I am glad that my children and grandchildren will not have such disappointments.
              1. +2
                25 July 2019 13: 52
                Quote: Ali Kokand
                The country made sense in everything. And therefore we could not believe that our rulers could simply throw us.

                And the rulers took us and threw us ... Now the point is to be a Man. Raise children and grandchildren with dignity. parents watch ..
              2. -5
                25 July 2019 15: 02
                Yes, of course it is especially loans, I remember at 66 I took a tape recorder for 180 for a year installment plan and ripped off 80 kopecks bastards for no more than one ruble, my grandchildren no longer have such disappointments and my granddaughter will definitely have !!!
            2. -1
              28 July 2019 13: 22
              Do not breach! Young specialist, a salary of 120 rubles. But almost always a bonus, less than 150 was not.
              1. +2
                28 July 2019 18: 53
                Dog Breshet! After the institute, 115 rubles is a young specialist ... minus income 13%, minus for childlessness 6%, minus party fees ... from one to 3% ... So count dear ... Obviously different posts, different HIGH SCHOOLS .. Miscellaneous salary ..About the award could not give!
      2. +20
        24 July 2019 21: 13
        millions? why not billions? a fabulous whistler ... did he hold a candle when they destroyed it or did Solzhenitsyn speak at a seance?
        1. +5
          25 July 2019 11: 15
          Quote: Not Liberoid Russian
          or solzhenitsyn

          no, Rezun personally told, and then Svanidze and Co. carried these excrement to a media fan and printing paper ...
      3. +15
        24 July 2019 21: 46
        Quote: Gabriel
        For decades, Georgians in power have exterminated Russian people on their own land. Millions of people!
        The executioner was shot, just as he did, without trial, without a lawyer, without publicity. He got what he deserved. Those who did this are no less bastards. But that was their role. Bastards, destroy the bastards.
        Now they are shouting about poor demography, demographic holes ... The retirement age has been raised for everyone, for men in particular. Let the young people think about it.

        Che, SOLZHEnitsyna and other stupid okhlamonov, miscalculated?
      4. +6
        24 July 2019 22: 25
        Bot Gabriel .. progress however ... laughing
      5. +5
        24 July 2019 22: 42
        For decades, Georgians in power have exterminated Russian people on their own land. Millions of people!
        The executioner was shot, just as he did, without trial, without a lawyer, without publicity. He got what he deserved. Those who did this are no less bastards. But that was their role. Bastards, destroy the bastards.
        Now they are shouting about poor demography, demographic holes ... The retirement age has been raised for everyone, for men in particular. Let the young people think about it.

        Select hutspa ....
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      7. 0
        25 July 2019 14: 08
        What, really bad on the head? You carry such nonsense, it is necessary to be treated, although, most likely, it is already too late.
      8. 0
        25 July 2019 19: 15
        He got what he deserved. Those who did this are no less bastards. But that was their role. Bastards, destroy the bastards.

        - read Vs. Ivanov or others - there is an isolated life of the post of serfs without "nonresident" influence, with your mind, without national goals
    4. +6
      24 July 2019 21: 26
      Who benefits? Well, first of all, the one who headed the country. N.S. Khrushchev
      1. +4
        24 July 2019 22: 29
        Quote: Phil77
        First of all, to the one who headed the country. N.S. Khrushchev

        Not only that - he launched the nuclear industry of the USSR from scratch.
        In the United States, his death was also applauded.
    5. 0
      24 July 2019 22: 21
      Beria is not an unequivocal person, like Stalin. Get a country with a plow and leave with an atomic bomb? It's not so easy ... But on the other hand, I myself know what Stalin and Beria are capable of because they lived where they exiled. And he personally saw these buried on 50 cm ... I saw a wall in the taiga several tens of kilometers long of stones that is unknown for what is folded. It is also a huge cemetery with hollows (instead of mounds) with no identification marks, and it is not a graveyard that is just a territory of hollows. And I don’t need to prove anything - I lived there for 25 years.
      1. +6
        24 July 2019 23: 47
        Were these very buried innocent? There was no bitch war in the zones, like the criminals themselves? In fact, the percentage of "political" was not that high, mostly there was a criminal element, and after the war there were a lot of collaborators: policemen, Bandera, Vlasov. Plus, many economic crimes were classified as political.
      2. +4
        25 July 2019 05: 29
        Quote: Sergey Averchenkov
        Beria is not an unequivocal person, like Stalin. Get a country with a plow and leave with an atomic bomb? It's not so easy ... But on the other hand, I myself know what Stalin and Beria are capable of because they lived where they exiled. And he personally saw these buried on 50 cm ... I saw a wall in the taiga several tens of kilometers long of stones that is unknown for what is folded. It is also a huge cemetery with hollows (instead of mounds) with no identification marks, and it is not a graveyard that is just a territory of hollows. And I don’t need to prove anything - I lived there for 25 years.

        Where?
      3. 0
        25 July 2019 14: 13
        And what, these are all 100 percent innocent victims, angels without wings? There were no bandits, thieves, crooks, active enemies of the political system in the country?
    6. +8
      24 July 2019 22: 34
      The coup in 1953 began with the assassination (poisoning) of Stalin. These M.razi hit the leader, and then on his successor. As a result, we are in the ass, and the enemies are in chocolate. That’s the whole moral. In 35/40 Stalin did not finish the Trotskyite trash and received a retaliatory strike. And Beria, the great organizer and head of the Atomic Project, was turned into a scarecrow. Not the first time our past was rewritten, but the truth was hidden. Alas, still the truth has to be conquered bit by bit.
      1. +1
        24 July 2019 22: 44
        In 35/40 Stalin did not finish the Trotskyite trash and received a retaliatory strike

        Well, how could he crush her - if Trotsky was a simple performer of someone else's will.
      2. +3
        24 July 2019 23: 14
        As Vladimir Semyonovich sang - "But, after all, seers, by the way, as well as eyewitnesses, in all ages were burned by people at the stake ..."
    7. +2
      24 July 2019 22: 38
      Where do you get to talk about the USSR
    8. +10
      24 July 2019 22: 45
      Let's just vote in the comments, and decide who has what position, write everyone who is for whom. I am for the socialist path of development, I am for Stalin.
      1. -4
        24 July 2019 23: 56
        But here is ambiguous. I am for civilized capitalism, like Scandinavian. But Stalin and Beria are really outstanding figures who built the Power, their merits are undeniable.
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    9. 0
      25 July 2019 02: 44
      Quote: AU Ivanov.
      Were these very buried innocent? There was no bitch war in the zones, like the criminals themselves? In fact, the percentage of "political" was not that high, mostly there was a criminal element, and after the war there were a lot of collaborators: policemen, Bandera, Vlasov. Plus, many economic crimes were classified as political.
      I will not lie - I have no idea. But it seems to me that even the guilty should be buried deeper. There were just a lot of exiles. The Japanese prisoner of war camp was ... well, the cemetery, respectively, was Japanese. By the way, some Japanese then assimilated. so surnames like Lyusyan were not uncommon with us.
    10. +3
      25 July 2019 03: 48
      For nearly half a century the name of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria was associated with massive illegal repressions of the 1930s and 1950s

      Was there a lack of reading?
      On November 25, 1938, Beria was appointed People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR.
      According to A.S. Barsenkov and A.I. Vdovin, with the advent of L.P. Beria to the post of head of the NKVD, the scale of repressions fell sharply, the Great Terror ended ...
      December 29, 1945 Beria was dismissed from the post of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs ...
    11. +4
      25 July 2019 05: 17
      Khrushchev poisoned Stalin. Beria was to become a follower of Stalin's course. But Khrushchev outplayed Beria with a venal clique ...
    12. -3
      25 July 2019 07: 07
      Yes, it is perfectly clear to whom the removal of Beria was beneficial:
      Malenkov
      . And why? And because Beria was preparing a coup, and Malenkov, seemingly his good friend, found out about him at the last moment and by accident. What did that mean? That Malenkov would be the victim of a coup! Those. together with other Stalinists he would have been imprisoned in the last political process in the USSR. For Beria was preparing a coup with Khrushchev, Mikoyan, etc. And his goal was to bring decisions of the future XX Congress on bayonets.
      But the conspiracy failed, and the comrades-in-arms had to go the other way. A la-la about "Stalinist" Beria, leave Mukhin.
      1. 0
        25 July 2019 13: 49
        The only thing that in the future, after 1957, Malenkov, unlike Molotov, Kaganovich, was not so Stalinist. Almost turned to faith in his old age, and one of his grandchildren rebuilds temples.
      2. +1
        25 July 2019 14: 17
        Delusions of Dunno, or malicious lies.
    13. -1
      25 July 2019 07: 25
      "Killed with a machine gun from an armored vehicle through the window" ??????????? What nonsense ...
    14. 0
      25 July 2019 09: 53
      The elimination of Beria cannot be called a coup. He was the first deputy chairman of the Presovmin and the Minister of the Interior. And by decision of the majority of the members of the Council of Ministers (Chairman Malenkov), more precisely, his Presidium and the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Party (Secretary of the Central Committee Khrushchev) were eliminated. And then the decision to remove from public positions was issued by decree of the USSR PVS (Chairman Voroshilov). Moreover, such Stalin's comrades-in-arms as Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Bulganin, Kaganovich and others even after his removal from office or after retirement, after Khrushchev’s removal, Beria was characterized only on the negative side.
      1. 0
        25 July 2019 14: 25
        Well, right, they described it negatively, but how could it be otherwise, it was necessary to somehow justify their participation in a not clean business, and therefore a 100 percent villain. The same faithful Stalinist Voroshilov readily waved a paper on the transfer of the Crimea, catering to the undeveloped Trotskyist Khrushchev.
    15. Quote: GIPS
      "But what are you going to do, eh!"
      Someone, remove the BBC Lt. Col. from the site!

      ***
      And what, here alone the Stalinists have the right to express their thoughts?
      Stayed completely?
    16. Quote: Ros 56
      comments

      ***
      And I wrote to you that I did not want to become a colonel in the ruins of the army of your idol Yeltsin.
      Do not get it the first time, re-read the second, Stalinoberits!
    17. 0
      25 July 2019 17: 26
      Quote: Shuttle
      Quote: Sergey Averchenkov
      Beria is not an unequivocal person, like Stalin. Get a country with a plow and leave with an atomic bomb? It's not so easy ... But on the other hand, I myself know what Stalin and Beria are capable of because they lived where they exiled. And he personally saw these buried on 50 cm ... I saw a wall in the taiga several tens of kilometers long of stones that is unknown for what is folded. It is also a huge cemetery with hollows (instead of mounds) with no identification marks, and it is not a graveyard that is just a territory of hollows. And I don’t need to prove anything - I lived there for 25 years.

      Where?

      Krasnoyarsk region. North Yenisei region. pos Thea. Do you think I'm lying? In vain.
    18. Quote: AU Ivanov.
      Were these very buried innocent? There was no bitch war in the zones, like the criminals themselves? In fact, the percentage of "political" was not that high, mostly there was a criminal element, and after the war there were a lot of collaborators: policemen, Bandera, Vlasov. Plus, many economic crimes were classified as political.

      ***
      Study the list of repressed Ivanovs and Ivanovs through a dash with a double surname:
      many illiterate, illiterate peasants, collective farmers, workers, Russian employees, Belarusians, Udmurts, Tatars, Chuvashs, Kalmyks, different regions, etc.
      Are there no your relatives there?
      http://lists.memo.ru/index9.htm
    19. Quote: Igor Shcherbina
      Let's just vote in the comments, and decide who has what position, write everyone who is for whom. I am for the socialist path of development, I am for Stalin.

      ***
      Where did you get such a "wonderful idea" that the majority is always right?
      "Dr. Stockman:
      - Most are never right. Never, I say!
      This is one of those generally accepted false conventions, against "every free and thinking person is obliged to rebel.
      What people make up the majority of the country? From smart or stupid?
      I think everyone will agree that stupid people make up a terrible, overwhelming majority on the globe.
      But is it right, damn it, for fools to control smarts?
      Never in my life!
      Henrik Ibsen. Enemy of the People (En folkefiende), 1882

      At the Grand Cafe, directly opposite the window that Henryk Ibsen always sat, is a quote from the fourth act of his play about Dr. Stockman:
      Minoriteten har altid retten. The minority is always right.

      In this question, the voting looks like: "who has more minuses is right" or "who has more pluses is right"?

      The most dangerous enemies of truth and freedom among us are a united majority.
      Henrik Ibsen, "Enemy of the People"
    20. 0
      26 July 2019 13: 07
      Beria was a technician-builder-architect by education. By vocation in his youth - a professional intelligence officer. In terms of his main activity, he is an excellent head of the state security service in the broadest sense: from cleaning up Trotskyists in the bodies, to the military-technical security of the country. And the camps would have been for anyone, even with Lavrenty Palych, even without him. However, it was under Beria that such sadists as the head of Matveyev on Solovki were convicted and ended badly - they sat in the same camp that they "commanded". The gulag is, of course, scary and painful, but under Beria the camps ceased to be exterminatory, and this is already a plus among the minuses.
    21. -1
      26 July 2019 17: 25
      Prudnikova Jewish, Beria Jew hand washes his hand.

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