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>When Rudenko began the interrogation of Beria, a monstrous person was revealed before our eyes, a dreadful beast for whom nothing was sacred. It's amusingly s
by southernplaces7 3y ago
>When Rudenko began the interrogation of Beria, a monstrous person was revealed before our eyes, a dreadful beast for whom nothing was sacred.
It's amusingly self-serving how Krushcev should imply that he and others in the top leadership only discovered this about Beria after the death of Stalin and Beria's arrest.
Krushcev himself, while not personally sadistic and cruel in the way Beria was, had rivers of blood pass over his hands while he worked for Stalin organizing vast purges and famine conditions.
- carlosjobim 3y agoHe doesn't imply that, he knew before that how Beria was conducting his job as the secret police chief, but probably not about Beria's past time activities. Khrushchev was far from a saint, and he is surprisingly quiet in his memoirs about his role as a judge in the troikas, and participation in purging innocent people. He was a murderer. According to himself, he was hypnotised like everyone else in the Stalin cult, unable to see anything wrong with what Stalin said or did.
- medo-bear 3y agoKhrushchev also gifted Crimea to Ukraine under somewhat questionable circumstances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_Crimea_in_the_Soviet_Union#Question_of_constitutionality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_Crimea_in_the_Sovi...