Beria - the enemy?
"He is very energetic, he is well and quickly oriented, well marks the secondary from the main thing, so he does not waste time, he certainly has a taste for scientific issues, he grasps them well, precisely formulates his decisions"Kapitsa
29 March 1899 was born in a poor peasant family in the settlement of Merheuli in the Transcaucasus in the impoverished peasant family Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, who after his death was recorded in the group of the biggest “bloodsuckers” Russian stories, along with the "bloody tyrants" Stalin and Ivan the Terrible. It is difficult to find in the history of Russia a person who would have been so covered with mud. Hating him is simply irrational, all sorts of Svanidze, apparently, just panicked by his name.
Parents, noting Lavrenti Beria's ability to science, wanted to give him a good education, for this they sold half a house. He met expectations and graduated from the Sukhum primary school with honors in 1915. He went to Baku and entered the Baku Secondary Mechanical and Construction Technical School, since the 17 years he has kept his mother and sister. He got carried away with social democratic ideas, in 1917 he organized a RSDP (b) cell, in 1918, when Baku occupied Turkish troops, he helped the Bolsheviks to the underground workers. In 1919-1920, he led an illegal organization of technicians who supported the Bolsheviks, while he studied and worked. In 1919, I graduated from college with a degree in engineering from a construction architect. With the knowledge of the Bolshevik Party, he got involved in Azerbaijani counterintelligence, was an employee of the Baku Customs.
In 1920, he entered the Baku Polytechnic Institute, in August 1920, Beria was appointed the head of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (B) of Azerbaijan, and in October, the executive secretary of the Cheka. After that, he constantly “grew up” in positions and in 1927-1930 he became the people's commissar of the interior of the Georgian SSR, in 1931 in the year - the chairman of the GPU at SNK ZSFSR. In 1931, he was transferred to party work - became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Georgia. In this position, he did a lot of useful things for his small homeland - Georgia. The national economy of Georgia under his leadership developed rapidly, the Georgian peasantry became one of the richest in the state, the sea and mountain resorts of Transcaucasia developed rapidly, rapid construction went on, Georgian cities were transformed (for the better). Beria proved himself as a real "business executive". And only in 1938, he was returned to the state security - he was appointed to the post of head of the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD of the USSR, then People's Commissar of the NKVD. Under him, the scale of the repressions was sharply reduced: for 1939 a year, 2,6 thousand people were sentenced to the highest measure on charges of counterrevolutionary crimes, for 1940 a year - 1,6 thousand people. In 1939-1940, 837 thousand people were released from prison and rehabilitated.
What hate Beria?
- The gangster underground won in Georgia, turned the region into one of the richest in the Union.
- Created a modern industrial base (metallurgy, oil industry) and a thriving agriculture (tea, citrus fruits, grapes, etc.) in Georgia (and, more broadly, in the Transcaucasus).
“Beria stopped mass repressions in 1938, from which many innocent people suffered, freed, rehabilitated hundreds of thousands of people. Perpetrators of repressive organs were punished.
- He helped prepare the country for the Great War, creating a reliable rear, free from the “fifth column”. He did a lot in setting up production of modern weapons.
- Under his command, an operation unprecedented in world history was carried out to evacuate the industry to the east and south-east of the country, quickly establishing output; decline in production is not allowed and very quickly increased. "Magnitka won the Ruhr."
- The troops of the NKVD, including the frontier guards, under his leadership, with honor fought the Great Patriotic War and did not let the people down. Under his leadership, great attention was paid to the development of special equipment, in the laboratories of the NKVD radio direction finders, new radios, sabotage mines, infrared sights, silent weapon. During the defense of the Caucasus, the use of special groups from the border guards, which were armed with silent rifles with night sights, dealt a heavy blow to the offensive of the Kleist group, their usual tactics fell through due to the deaths of almost 400 radio operators and guidance specialists aviation and artillery.
- The state security agencies provided a reliable barrier from saboteurs, traitors, successfully fought with the German security forces. The Red Army was securely covered from enemy intelligence, the Germans themselves recognized this; for example, General von Butlar wrote: “The special conditions that existed in Russia strongly interfered with the acquisition of intelligence data on the military potential of the Soviet Union, and therefore these data were far from complete. The Russians are exceptionally skillful in disguise of everything that belongs to their army, as well as strict control over foreigners and the impossibility of organizing a wide network of espionage made it difficult to verify the few information that the intelligence officers managed to collect ... "
- Excellent intelligence was organized, many people heard about the success of our intelligence officers in the Reich, USA. Just one example of the brilliant work of our heroes "cloak and dagger" - the organization of round-the-clock listening to the delegation of "allies" at the Tehran Conference.
- The organization and successful conduct of the operation “Lentils”, at the present time it is even difficult to believe that the NKVD troops solved the problem of the “proud highlanders” in a week.
- Organized and helped in the creation of the Soviet atomic weapons and intercontinental missiles. This actually saved the USSR and its peoples from the US atomic bombing. For this, Beria does not deserve a modest monument somewhere in the center of Moscow ?!
- Ensured the discovery of oil fields in the Volga region, saved the country from energy starvation.
- He was the organizer of the creation of the Air Defense Ring around Moscow; nobody could do this task before us.
The Soviet Union was lucky that at one time there were two unique managers at the head of the country - Stalin and Beria. Beria was a unique personality - a technocrat, a manager of the highest level, a man with unlimited energy. Therefore, his monument in Russia and Moscow - the building of Moscow State University, the head of the construction of this building, looking up to the stars, was L.P. Beria.
Sources of:
Yemelyanov Yu. Stalin. On top of power. M., 2007.
Kremlin S. Beria. The best manager of the XX century. M., 2008.
Mukhin Yu. I. Stalin's murderers. M., 2005.
Mukhin Y. Murder of Stalin and Beria. M., 2002.
Prudnikova E. Beria. The last knight of Stalin. SPb. and M., 2005.
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