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Lavrentiy Beria was in deed the name that came into my mind reading this headline. Interesting to see an article about that mass murderer here. One consolation
by classified 7y ago
Lavrentiy Beria was in deed the name that came into my mind reading this headline. Interesting to see an article about that mass murderer here. One consolation is that this scoundrel died of his own medicine.
- flyinghamster 7y agoIndeed, the Stalinist system ate its own enablers. Not just Beria, but his predecessors Yezhov and Yagoda were monsters in their own right.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI think I read that Khrushchev wrote that the thing he was most proud of was that after he was done officials in disfavor were merely demoted and sent away rather than murdered. I think also read that in the west we think of there being a 20 year peace between WWI and WWII. Where in eastern Europe that period was one of intercine ethno-national conflict.