We "know well" some people; some people are "bad". Lavrenti Beria is one of the people the world knows badly. Here is his story:
(1899-1953) USSR politician. He was the director of the police organization in his country. Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was born on March 29, 1899 in Merkheuli, Georgia. He died on December 23, 1953, in Moscow. He was the son of a Georgian farmer. While studying engineering in Baku, he joined the Bolshevik Party in 1917. He participated in party activities in Azerbaijan and Georgia. In 1921, he became the chief of the Georgian region of the police organization CHEKA. He played an important role in suppressing national movements in the region during this ten-year duty.
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during the Second World War, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin in 1941. He officially joined the Politburo in 1946.
In 1931, he was elected the First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party. In 1934 he became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. During this period, he was tasked with suppressing the resistance movements that developed against the collectivization efforts in the Caucasus.
He was appointed head of the Internal Affairs Commissariat (NKVD) established by Stalin in 1938. He was tasked with concluding the "Great Purge" of the 1930s. He became a member of the Supreme Council of National Defense in 1941. In the same year, he was appointed to the ministries of interior and state security. Beria, whose effectiveness increased during the years of World War II, was assigned not only to protect internal security but also to oversee the arms industry. In 1946 he was appointed a member of the Politburo, the highest organ of the Communist Party. He resigned from his ministry in the same year. However, he remained active in the police organization and domestic politics by remaining the deputy prime minister regarding internal security in the Council of Ministers.
After the death of Stalin in March 1953, he took part in the group called "Triple Administration" to rule the Soviet Union together with Molotov and Malenkov. However, other members of the Politburo, especially Khrushchev, were worried about this situation, and in July of the same year, he was dismissed and arrested. Beria was later tried and shot.