The black myth of the "bloody executioner" Beria. Part of 2

The activities of the NKVD troops

Speaking about the contribution of Beria to the common victory over the Nazis, we should not forget that the development of communications of the border troops is connected with the head of the NKVD. This allowed, in the pre-war time, to provide with telephone communications every border service, even in the Far East. The overall readiness of the border troops and NKVD troops for war, compared with a significant part of the army, was amazing. In the first hours of the war, the most difficult and terrible for the army and the country, the border guards retained control. All outposts, except those who died in the all-round defense, moved away from the border by order. Subsequently, the border guards formed the elite of the army, performing intelligence, counterintelligence and other special functions.

Only guarding the rear of the Soviet fronts and armies, the Soviet border guards destroyed or captured more than 320 thousand German soldiers and commanders, that is, more 19 full-blooded Wehrmacht divisions. At the same time, the border guards destroyed 9 thousand thugs who hunted in the rear of the army, and 29 thousand thugs were arrested. On t. During the war years, the “non-military” borders of the USSR detained more than 63 thousands of violators, exposed a spy and a saboteur 1834, defused more than 4 thousands of smugglers, and smuggled 18,5 million rubles. The border guards took part in the most significant operations of the Soviet army. They defended Odessa, Sevastopol, Stalingrad, Leningrad and Moscow, took part in strategic 50 operations. In the Far East, border guards took an active part in the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

During the war, Beria did not forget to pay attention to the development of special equipment. In the special laboratories of the NKVD, new radios, radio direction finders, noiseless weapon, sights, mine weapons. During the battle for the Caucasus, special groups of border guards armed with silent rifles with night sights made a great contribution to the collapse of the German offensive. Wehrmacht's usual tactics turned out to be foiled due to the extermination of dozens of gunners aviation, artillery and radio operators.

One of the “black myths”, which touched Beria (in very detail about the “black myths” created around Beria, says researcher A. Martirosyan in the series “One Hundred Myths about Beria”) was created about the actions of the NKVD troops during the Great Patriotic War . They allegedly “fattened” in the rear and terrorized the people while all the people fought against the Nazis. However, the troops of the NKVD performed important functions. Thus, at the very beginning of the 163 war, thousands of NKVD troops, including more than 58 thousand border guards, were involved in guarding the rear of the active army. By February 1942, the number of border guards guarding the rear reached more than 67 thousand people, and by the end of the war 85 thousand people (57 NKVD regiments). The troops of the NKVD also guarded the railways, railway structures, major industrial facilities. During the war years, the NKVD troops guarded 3600 objects on the railways. If in August 1941 was protected by 250 of the most important industrial enterprises, then at the end of the war - 487. And the merit of the NKVD troops was that during the war the German intelligence agencies could not even organize a semblance of the famous “rail war” of the Soviet partisans or destroy any important industrial objects in the Soviet rear, although the sabotage groups sent in batches. During the war, the NKVD troops conducted 9292 security operations to protect the rear and fight bandits. As a result, more than 47 of thugs were killed and about 100 of thugs were arrested. During these operations, the troops of the NKVD lost 4787 people.

Thus, the NKVD troops did not “fatten”, but performed the most important state functions, ensuring the security of the rear of the active army, uninterrupted operation of industry and railways. Destroy saboteurs and gangsters. Kept order in the rear, fought against banditry.

In addition, the NKVD troops fought directly on the front line. Already on 29 on June 1941, at the initiative of Stalin and Beria, the Stavka decided to immediately form divisions (15 rifle and 10 motorized) from the NKVD military personnel. For the formation of these divisions were used command and ordinary cadres of the border and internal troops, as well as the vaults. The formation of these divisions took place under the personal supervision of the Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrentiy Pavlovich.

The leading cadres of the NKVD reinforced the army generals. In July, 1941, the organization of the Reserve Front was entrusted to Lieutenant-General Bogdanov, Chief of the Belarusian Border Guard Forces. Of the six armies of this front, four were commanded by the generals of the NKVD. Lieutenant-General Maslennikov, Deputy Lawrence Beria for the troops commanded by the 29 Army, Major General Khomenko, Head of the Ukrainian Border Guard Forces, 4 Army, Head of the Forces of the Karelo-Finnish Frontier District, Major General Dolmatov, 31 Army Head of the Forces, Finnish Border District, 24 Army Head of the Forces, Finnish Border District, 10 Army Head of the Forces, Finnish Border District, XNUMX Army, Chief of Forces of the Karelo-Finnish Border District, XNUMX Army, Chief of Forces of the Karelo-Finnish Frontier District, XNUMX Army, Chief of Forces of the Karelo-Finnish Frontier District, XNUMX Army, Chief of Forces of the Karelo-Finnish Frontier District, XNUMX Army, Chief of Forces of the Karelo-Finnish Frontier District, XNUMX Army, Chief of Forces of the Karelo-Finnish Frontier District, XNUMX Army, Chief of Forces of the Karelo-Finnish Frontier District; Major General Rakutin - Army XNUMX. And from the XNUMX sapper armies created as part of the Red Army at the beginning of the war, five armies were formed by senior NKVD officers.

The NKVD convoy troops courageously fought the enemy. In order to avoid confusion, it must be said that the composition of the NKVD troops at the beginning of the war included: troops for the protection of railways and railway structures; for the protection of particularly important industrial enterprises; escort troops and operational troops. So, few people know that the famous inscription on the wall of the Brest Fortress “I die, but I do not give up! Goodbye Motherland! 20 July 1941 g. ”Was made in the barracks of the 132-th separate battalion of convoy troops. That is, the soldiers of the escort troops fought in the fortress almost a month after the city was left by units of the Red Army. And the "guards" as soon as they did not call names in the years of the domination of liberalism in Russia!

The 42nd convoy brigade in Belarus fought heroically. By order of the commandant of Minsk, the brigade maintained order in the city from June 22 to 26, guarded the most important institutions, and participated in the elimination of fires caused by the bombing. In accordance with the procedure according to which the Chekists and internal troops were the last to leave settlements, one of the last brigades left Minsk. From June 30 to July 3, the brigade kept the crossings and the eastern bank of the Berezina River on a 15 km section (the state should be defended by a rifle division), having as its adversary a Wehrmacht motorized division that was armed Tanks and heavy artillery. For three days, escort troops armed with light small arms and Molotov cocktails held back the onslaught of the enemy. On July 10, a severely thinned brigade arrived in Moscow for reformation. In 1942, the brigade was reorganized into the 37th division of the NKVD troops. The division was engaged in the protection of important facilities, the fight against saboteurs and operational work in the liberated areas.

The 13-division of the NKVD escort troops, which was stationed in Ukraine, passed a similar way. She participated in the battles in Kiev direction. So, the soldiers of the 233 regiment heroically acted. For three days they held a bridge on the Sula River, through which the retreating Soviet troops were crossing. Having only rifles and “Molotov cocktails”, the NKVD fighters beat off attacks by the enemy tank group, not allowing the Germans to cross.

Amazing courage and resilience were shown by the warriors of the 227-th regiment of convoy troops. One two days defended the city of Novoukrainka, destroying several hundred Nazis. The regiment left Kiev one of the last. The 227 regiment, along with the 4 division of the NKVD troops for the protection of railways, covered the withdrawal of the 37 army. Even being surrounded, the NKVD fighters were able to get through to their own. By early October, only 45 fighters remained in the regiment. All the others fell in battle with the enemy. So acted almost all parts of the convoy troops stationed in the western part of the USSR.

All these examples speak of the attention of the People's Commissar to the troops of the NKVD. They had the highest morale and excellent proficiency, restraining the onslaught of superior enemy forces.

Few people know that it was at the suggestion of the Deputy Commissar of Internal Affairs Maslennikov that the fighters of the NKVD, in addition to performing their usual tasks, began to train the fighters of the national militia, destructive battalions and reserve regiments. This initiative was supported by Beria. As a result, convoy troops and border guards became the pioneers of a wide sniper movement on all fronts. Since the spring of 1942, mass training of snipers and sniper groups has begun. As a result, snipers destroyed tens of thousands of enemy soldiers and commanders. Already in 1943, 2289 sniper NKVD were awarded medals and orders. So the fighters of the NKVD, led by Lawrence Pavlovich, fought until the very Victory.

Deportation

In 1990, Beria’s accusation of organizing the deportation of Chechens and Ingushs was very popular. Moreover, the alleged Georgian Beria hated the Highlanders and avenged them for the sins of their ancestors who attacked Georgia. Stalin and Beria were accused of an ethnic genocide based on personal revenge.

However, this is a myth created by the liberals and representatives of the intelligentsia of those peoples who were deported. He is well described in the work of historian I. Pykhalov. “For what did Stalin evict peoples?” The above facts show that the deported peoples were punished deservedly (The myth of the injustice of the eviction of Chechens and Ingush in 1944). For the most part, they refused to fight the Nazis, created gangs in the rear, and actively collaborated with the Nazis. Moreover, banditry, collaborationism, complicity became so widespread that, taking into account local peculiarities, entire nations had to be punished.

And about the "genocide" can not speak. On the contrary, in wartime conditions and in accordance with the Criminal Code, “to the wall” could rightfully put most of the male population of the deported peoples (Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tatars, etc.). However, the highest military-political leadership of the USSR showed mercy and humanity. Guilty peoples were given time to think about their mistakes.

In addition, the leadership of the USSR thus prevented the possibility of a large-scale civil war inside the country. The Nazis at the end of 1943, developed a plan "On the need to turn the Eastern campaign into a civil war." After being defeated at Stalingrad, in the battle for the Caucasus and in the Battle of Kursk, the Nazis wanted to kindle the flames of the civil war in the USSR, using a number of small nations for their own purposes. However, the Soviet leadership has already taken preventive measures to prevent such a scenario. Therefore, the Order of Suvorov received LP Beria deservedly so.

It must be said that Stalin understood perfectly the meaning of Beria for the country. In the USSR, a unique title - Honorary Citizen. Assigned it only once. Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria is the only Honorary Citizen of the USSR.

To be continued ...

Comments

[thrower]

Unfortunately, they did not say about the role of Beria in the partisan movement.

[ism_ek]

Yes, practically nothing is said. The author is poorly versed in the topic. For example, nothing is said about Beria’s fate in the defense of the Caucasus. Organizational talent Beria is not disclosed.

[radio operator]

Quote: ism_ek

Organizational talent Beria is not disclosed.

Yes, we still don’t know everything.
The last word Lavrenty Palych has not yet said.
It was not for nothing that he hid his archives from the Khrushchev junta, as is supposed, in China.
There is a Chinese good Chinese cartoon about this:

[Alekseir162]

Whatever they say about L.P.Beria, for me he will still remain a man in his place. Of course, it’s good to make perfumes or sweets, but someone should (sorry, you can’t find another word) and dig in shit. It’s good when there are such people, and it’s good when they understand the importance of their work.

[Ascetic]

Quote: Alekseir162

Of course, it’s good to make perfumes or sweets, but someone should (sorry, you can’t find another word) and dig in shit. It’s good when there are such people, and it’s good when they understand the importance of their work.

A couple of years ago, Beria's diaries were published, three books were published with comments by Sergei Kremlev. Volume 1 was called "Stalin Does Not Believe in Tears", volume 2 - "I will not stand the second war", volume 3 - "We live with an atomic bomb." Later, the undated materials of LP Beria were also published under the title "Russia won't exist without Stalin!" and "I wish I could live another twenty years!" Naturally, in liberal circles, these diaries were declared falsification.
Kremlin even released another study "Beria's diaries are not fake! New evidence"
You can read here

So in his diaries Beria very often lamented what kind of crap (stupidity, betrayal) he had to face,

Here are some diary entries
July 29, 1938
Received a personal letter from Comrade Stalin. He suggests returning to Chekist work, to Moscow, as the first deputy Yezhov (People’s Commissar of the NKVD). He is a complex person. Broke firewood with repression. The NKVD and military intelligence are clogged with cadres of Yagoda and Trotsky. Koba writes, I am one of the entire party leadership and I know the KGB work well, and only I can straighten things out. Presses on consciousness, writes that you will put things in order in the Cheka and then if you want, you will return home.
When mu ... ki were running, it was rotting. And when Koba believed me, gave me power, I moved Georgia so that let someone else try. And only everything worked out, and then take off, Lavrentiy, go to Moscow. Catch the spies ... Take a lot, a little pleasure. Who knows who these bastards handed over, who did not. It will be necessary to tightly check everyone.

21 September 1938 years
Stalin often calls, and I sit on the Lubyanka, turn over the folders, enter the course of things. But the matter is x ... howl. Now it’s clear to me that Nikolai needs to be replaced. He did a lot in the People’s Commissariat, and screwed up a lot. The good thing is that he removed the Berry people, but not all, but he imposed his Mr. ... Thank you for gaining a young recruiting from guys with higher education from industry. This skeleton is young, healthy, it will be useful to us. The main thing is that all this is mainly personnel on the ground, and I will deal with the Central Office. If only a new major conspiracy showed up, as Berry wrapped. But maybe there is a conspiracy. The question is who and why. We have to arrest someone in the head of the apparatus.

The structure of the People’s Commissariat is loose, Nikolai did little work here. Government guards mess. I see in vain Koba believes Nicholas. He twists something, and this is dangerous. The berry has already twisted.

[Ascetic]

November 8 1938 years
Nobody knows that we have experienced the most difficult moment. The demonstration could well have been a terrorist attack. The time is convenient, everything is on the podium. Dagin and his guys could take a chance. Koba understood, but you won’t leave the Mausoleum. I took control of everything myself. Now it will be easier. I think the most dangerous head we took.
Kremlin comment: “Israel Dagin is the head of the 1st department (government security) of the UGB NKVD of the USSR. His participation in the anti-state conspiracy inside the NKVD, like this conspiracy itself, was not a hoax of Beria and Stalin, but a reality. And those guards of the rostrum of the Mausoleum, whom Dagin picked up, could have committed a terrorist act against Stalin and other members of the Politburo if Dagin had not been timely arrested. ”

In these conditions, Beria had to work ...
The rest of the collection can be read
The diaries of Lorenius Beria were declassified: “We have not yet discovered all the enemies ...”
From the diaries of Lorenius Beria: “Reported to Stalin how ours are fighting. The first time I saw his tears ... "

[jjj]

Interesting documents. And I somehow happened to come across research on Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis. His personality is also utterly slandered. Even in the "lieutenant's prose" all sorts of examples are described. Meanwhile, Mehlis was one of the most honest people. And the soldiers loved him because he cared about them. But all sorts of self-seekers allowed fables to walk around the world

[alekSASHKA-36]

Even on the link only the VO site is opened. Where to look for that?

[My address]

I met in the 80s with the Ministry of Medium Machine Building in the USSR (the Ministry of Medium Machine Building in the USSR was engaged in nuclear weapons, missiles and similar very serious matters). Interestingly, they stepped aside when asked about Beria. And it seems that if he is an executioner, an enemy and a loafer, God himself ordered him to swear. In the 60s, at the institute, he also did not answer the question of the students to the doctor, laureate, nuclear scientist V. Zolotavin. And the uncle was democratic, for example, with humorous examples he warned against using cheap wines like "Three Sevens". And relatives from the closed city of Snezhinsk say that the old people praised him. But informally and after a few glasses of tea.

[Igor39]

It is necessary for the Russian Orthodox Church to canonize Beria and elevate it to the face of saints, then he suffered for the Russian people, we will pray for him, remember with a kind word.

[itr]

Igor 39 you are absolutely right! this character has left many positive deeds and emotions in history, and those millions of lawfully convicted ones are to blame! they were rehabilitated after death, what else do they need!

[smile]

itr
You forgot to add that your statement about the millions convicted under Beria is a blatant lie. Your blatant lie.
Even through Russophobic, the Memorial society sponsored from abroad, and that. could not dodge and count Beria millions of victims .... you, you see, the liar is much more seasoned. :)))
By the way, for more than thirty years of Soviet power until 53 years old, a little more than 600 thousand people were executed - mind you, this is the time of banditry after the Civil War, Basmachism, unceasing subversive activity and in fact sabotage war on all borders, when gangs sent to us with a number of up to several hundred bayonets and sabers, the Second World War also entered this period with all sorts of traitors and executions of bandits and thieves according to wartime laws, which were the same in all countries without exception.

So, for reference, about the same amount was executed in democratic Europe without any wars only in the interwar period for communist activity.

Doesn’t. A lie completely unconvincing. :)))

[Sirius-2]

The church will not do this. Once upon a time on Victory Day, I asked a friend deacon why not classify Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya as a saint? (Why Zoya? Because she is our fellow countrywoman with him, and every day he goes to church service past the monument to Zoya.) So he answered: firstly Zoya is a Komsomol member, i.e. atheist secondly, in order to be reckoned with the Holy Church, something very great must be done for the same Church.
From myself I will add: Not for the people, not for the Motherland, for the Church! What did Zoya and Lavrenty Pavlovich do for the Church? But the "holy" Prince Vladimir, before baptizing Russia, robbed, killed, including his brothers, raped girls, he had a harem like a Sultan. But he BAPTIZED Russia !!! That's why his murderer, rapist, scumbag, a thousand years later, was canonized !!! Waited a thousand years !!! Here Alexander Nevsky was canonized almost immediately after his death, and that after a thousand!

[erased]

Speaking of deportation and "undeserved grievance of entire nations." Yesterday Putin ordered to consider the issue of the rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatars! The move is, of course, political. But why against the truth, for the sake of a small group of people and as an insult to all those who fought with the enemy during the war years?
It looks unpleasant against the background of everything that happens.

[Ivan Petrovich]

I agree with you too. They do not deserve it (Crimean Tatars)

[itr]

Ivan Petrovich, what did you serve for ????? I look at the boss play! you decide the fate of the peoples here!

[Ascetic]

Quote: erased

Putin ordered yesterday to consider the rehabilitation of Crimean Tatars! The move, of course, is political. But why is it against the truth, for the sake of a small group of people and how an insult to all those who fought the enemy during the war?
It looks unpleasant against the background of everything that happens.

You carefully look at the recording of the conversation between Putin and Minikhanov, and do not judge by the headlines of Lenta.ru and other media.



And where is the word about rehabilitation from Putin’s lips? He only promised to give instructions to work out all these issues, and most importantly, what follows from this dialogue, Putin directly obliged Minikhanov to engage himself in the issue of social and material security of the Tatar population and develop a program. As in the army, he himself took the initiative and implement it. Tatarstan is far from a subsidized region; let it help the brothers it intercedes for. Moscow is also not a poor region, but for a long time since the time of Luzhkov, it has been helping Sevastopol and the Black Sea Fleet, in particular, directly without federal programs and money.

[itr]

erased and why didn’t you remember the Ukrainians ????? there are ten times more than the Tatars on the side of the Nazis fought ????
By the way, a very big insult to veterans that we are trading with the Germans !!!!

[kopar]

He was a man, he remained a man .... People like him did not whine and did not let snot. "Manager" in the best sense of the word .... He rest in peace ...

[Vasia kruger]

It’s good that such articles began to appear. Tired that Beria is reproached to all and sundry, come up with terrible tales, demonize ... However, any thoughtful study of history refutes 99 out of 100 dirty myths.

[CIANIT]

There was humanity towards Chechens and Tatars, but Russians were shot without any "right to think about mistakes." And they whine about the genocide of Tatars and Chechens. In the 1st Chechen, 21000 Russian-speaking people were massacred in Chechnya, and they are now living happily ever after on Moscow subsidies. ...

[smile]

CIANIT
21 thousand - this is only according to the captured archival data of the Dudaev police - and only in less than 94 years ... Imagine what was really happening there ...

[Weniamin]

The role of Beria in the battle for the Caucasus is also interesting. This topic could be expanded more broadly.

[inkass_98]

I expressed myself in the first part of the article, and I repeat now: there was a controversial era, the leaders were the same. You can’t whitewash everyone in a row, as they do with Stalin, Beria and others; The country had to be dragged into the industrial era - they dragged it by force, through the impossibility. The country had to be protected from a terrible enemy - they defended it, with difficulty, with huge sacrifices, but won. Another question is that before the war they made a lot of mistakes in the army, but what, others had better? If England had taken the blow, would it have lasted long with its tanks and planes of the 30's? And the States that were not ready for war at all, even with Japan?
I have an ambivalent attitude towards Lavrenty Pavlovich, but it was under him that the main face of the Soviet system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB was formed, which in many respects are an example for current analogues.

[Terrible ensign]

I agree with you. The time was much more "strict", the methods and ways of solving problems were completely different than now. I'll write a little more below ...

[storog.ccp]

Before the great war, the purge of the generals is simply necessary. Compare, Stalin - in the most difficult days of the war there are no attempts, Hitler - a little smell of fried, several attempts in a row. Hussein and Gaddafi generals surrendered as soon as possible.

[dmb]

The trouble is that when assessing any politician, our commentators are guided not so much by common sense as by fashion. Most of them, 5 years ago, were burning the same Stalin and Beria. Now, at the top, the idea arose of drawing parallels, testifying to the wisdom of the then and current leaders, and now the favorite of the public, Wasserman writes Yezhov and Khrushchev in opposition to the wise Stalin, Stalin himself does not make mistakes and even in frank stupidity are trying to look for deep meaning and unearthly foresight ... Moreover, in the heat of "revelations" or praise, they no longer pay attention to outright nonsense. Well, what kind of "sapper" armies and where did Samsonov unearth?

[rotmistr4]

NS Khrushchev found a "scapegoat" in the person of Beria in order to divert accusations from his personality in mass repressions. And the goal was successful. All accusations fell on Beria and his closest assistants.
I think that the role of Beria in building and strengthening the State has not yet been fully disclosed.
The time will come and he will still be honored !!!

[chenia]

Beria managed everywhere, and the flair for talent is incredible. A simple soldier from Sakhalin writes to the marshal how the hydrogen bomb (based on lithium deuterium) should be arranged and how to control the thermonuclear reaction.

The letter arrives (can you imagine something similar now?), The guy (Oleg Lavrentyev) arrives at Moscow State University, he is given a laboratory, etc. According to this principle, Sakharov made a bomb, not a three-story crap (Teller).
That's why we did it all back then.

By the way, after the fall of Beria, “terribly” repressed scientists immediately began to take revenge on Lavrentyev (for what?), They took the laboratory away from the institute, and there was such a “thaw”.

By the way, the lamp is Sakharov (really a genius), but for some reason, never when did he mention who threw him the ideas of the bomb and plasma containment. So much for morality.

[smile]

chenia
But what morality does this gnnidi, who broadcast from the rostrum of the Supreme Council that Soviet troops in Afghanistan as fascists annihilate the villages of peaceful dehkans to ashes, try to destroy captured Soviet soldiers with the help of artillery and aircraft?
The fact that he is a talented scientist is a fact, but the fact that he had neither honor nor conscience is also a fact. And his wife, Elena Bonner, was such that Novodvorskaya would have a smoke ... that little family ...

[desant_doktor]

Sakharov, the beacon of the world, damn it ... Once he offered the naval command (EMNIP to Admiral Fomin - he was then in charge of the Navy for "special munitions") to dash along the eastern coast of the states with a 100 megaton torpedo, thereby causing a tsunami and a complete kirdyk to half of the states. The admiral's speech apparatus was stuck for a few seconds, then there was an answer in the style of "yes, you scientists are absolutely crazy ..."

[Ivan_Ivanov]

And did you do the stobes in his place?

[Terrible ensign]

Probably more than one year will pass before the perception of the figure of L.P. Beria among the bulk of the population. For too long and purposefully, the democratic press and various leaders of perestroika and glasnost were “blowing into the ears” of the people — they are the fosterlings of Khrushchev's propaganda. Therefore, publications like this one are very, very necessary and important.
The overwhelming majority of those liberally oriented when considering difficult periods in the history of our state come from the perspective of a modern person, accustomed to a certain degree of comfort, from the standpoint of exceptional individualism (and what the country did to me, what it gave me) and from the standpoint of unconditional humanism.
"Youth is raging in my soul,
I cherish the dream of fury:
Smother All Humanists
And make humanity happy. "
(Young M.Yu. Lermontov)
Then there were other people, then there was a different ideology and, in general, a different understanding of the current moment. With our modern patterns, in no case can you approach the analysis of what is happening in the 30-40s.
I would like to see with my own eyes at least one monument to L.P. Beria ...

[misham1978]

And yet, the top of the army came out on the side of Khrushchov-Malenkov. Even Serov (first deputy Beria in the Ministry of Internal Affairs). Too ambiguous personality. everything will coexist in him and the executioner (cheating hands and a cold head are fairy tales) and the organizer (effective manager of T-bills and the atomic project after the war, etc.) and even a harbinger of reforms (the beginning of de-Stalinization and especially his position on the GDR (Summer 53 years) )). Everyone wants to see what he wants to see. For each position, the arguments are both pros and cons. If Lavrenty had won the whole, nothing would have changed for the USSR. The role of personality in history is too small. There would be the same process of thaw, stagnation, restructuring ..... But perhaps all of this would be a little different.

[thrower]

If Lavrenty had won the whole, nothing would have changed for the USSR.

Right. Only when Khrushchev took power then the country changed its leadership from the Council of Ministers to the Central Committee of the CPSU, and then the 6 article of the constitution was added.

[demotivator]

Quote: thrower

And yet, the top of the army came out on the side of Khrushchov-Malenkov. Even Serov (first deputy Beria in the Ministry of Internal Affairs).

Some clarification - not Serov, but Sergei Kruglov, who in 1953, after the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the MGB were again united, became Beria's first deputy for the MGB. Refer, at least, to the book by Arsen Martirosyan (The author is a very extraordinary thinker and in the recent past - the foreign intelligence officer of the PGU KGB of the USSR "100 myths about Beria.) He has this moment very convincingly and intelligibly painted. A. Martirosyan proves, Sergei Kruglov became his first deputy for the Ministry of State Security (MGB) of the USSR. he himself was responsible for the construction of specially protected objects. (A. Martirosyan believes that Khrushchev and Mikoyan were behind Kruglov.
Wikipedia also writes about Kruglov’s involvement in the murder of Beria:

After the death of I.V. Stalin, when the ministries of internal affairs and state security were merged into a single department under the leadership of L. Beria, on March 11, 1953 he was appointed first deputy minister of internal affairs of the USSR. There is evidence that Kruglov took an active part in preparing the removal of Beria, was preparing an operation to eliminate it. After the arrest of L. Beria on June 26, 1953, he occupied the vacant ministerial post and the entire punitive apparatus of the USSR turned out to be subordinate to him. Despite the fact that he was an associate of L. Beria, he was entrusted with the task of removing from office and, if necessary, arresting dozens of the most odious figures of the former NKVD of the USSR and then proceeding with the reform of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kruglov is credited with the initiative to create a State Security Committee, which was formed on March 13, 1954 by separating “operational-Chekist departments and divisions” from the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

[siberalt]

Absolute nonsense. No ministries of the USSR in 1954 existed at all. There were People’s Commissariats. The KGB has already left the MGB. The USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs was created from 1956 to 1960. Learn the materiel.

[rezident]

An ordinary politician of that era. There could be no other.

[demotivator]

Quote: Ivan_Ivanov

And did you do the stobes in his place?

The question is asked too abstractly. Before any politician, sooner or later, invariably, the problem arises of choosing between greater evil and lesser evil. And many of those who went down in world history as recognized world leaders had to make such a choice. It’s like in this example: you are standing on the bank of the river and hear cries for help. Three drown in one place, and one in another. Having decided to save three, you will inevitably doom one to death - you won’t be able to save him. But then, you saved three! And to present the case in such a way as if Stalin repressed his opponents from nothing to do is stupidity. One must understand this - by repressing some, he saved the bulk of the people, and in the case of the peoples of the Caucasus, Crimea and Kalmykia, he also saved these peoples. Just imagine, what would happen if they were not simply expelled and brought to a criminal court for those crimes that were accused of some representatives of these peoples? And then the front-line soldiers would return to their villages and learn about how Caucasian men behaved while they fought with the Nazis on the war fronts. It is enough to recall that less than 2 years after Khrushchev made the decision to return special settlers to Chechnya, already in 1958. in Grozny there was a riot of the Russian population, who opposed the rampant Chechen banditry. In order to suppress this popular revolt, Khrushchev then had to widely attract troops, and even use tanks against the people.
So, your question is rhetorical.
In the photo - a picture of Grozny in August 1958.

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Quote: demotivator

On the picture - картинка Grozny in August 1958

The Russian language is rich! Is it still a photograph of the street of Grozny or a picture taken? Well, please think with your head before knocking on the keys!

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Quote: copar

He was a man, he remained a man .... People like him did not whine and did not let snot. "Manager" in the best sense of the word .... He rest in peace ...

It is more correct to say a manager from God. Land him rest in peace ....

[mongoose]

I am always pinned by the attempts of losers to give an assessment to the Figures, Beria was not a saint, as indeed any DOLLER. But he was the Doer, the rest is verbiage

[valerei]

I read all the comments for part 2 and there were only a few bloggers trying to somehow reason soberly. The rest are solid or almost solid, praises to the "effective manager". And why did they not ask at least a few, still living, witnesses who passed under Article 58? Probably their opinion on this issue will be somewhat different. Probably now it is good to talk about Beria, sitting in front of the computer.

[Chapay]

Regarding Article 58, Forest is cut ...

[Nikolaevich I]

What kind of country we have !? First: to glorify, and then about ..., or vice versa: about ... and then glorify. An article appeared: "Glory to LP Beria!" - and went: "Glory, glory." Then someone will write: Gad LP Beria! On the tsugunder of his history! "- and go:" To the tsugunder, to the tsugunder. "In 5 years, maybe we will find out the true information about Beria, and now draw conclusions based on general publicism? Well, well. I met information that Lavrenty "burned out" on the fact that he wanted to introduce a multi-party political system in the USSR instead of a one-party one. Thus, the "leading role of the party" was under threat that the party "comrades" of Lavrenty Beria were not allowed and that he spoke out that the workers should be interested in the results of their labor; and because Lawrence's wife in her memoirs stated that she did not believe in her husband's sexual promiscuity: because, given the number of women (which was "attributed to him" ) Beria must "plow" at the machine day and night without a lunch break; and this was impossible, given the huge volume of work entrusted to him. Well, I read this populist article, but I was in no hurry to "rehabilitate" LP Beria. ..took note.

[Rubon]

Today is a holiday for the guys, Pioneer exults! Today, Lavrenty Palych Beria came to visit us!

[mithridate]

more need to work in the archives!