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Beria was also a sexual offender and deviant of the highest tier. He routinely raped and abused women who had been taken from the streets for this purpose. Anyone who tried to resist him, he would have them killed. His depravity was well known, and Stalin himself was said to be terrified when he was informed that his own daughter had been left alone with Beria.

Following Stalin's death, unlike many of his followers, Beria was described as being overjoyed, and many of the others feared that he had his eyes aimed at taking over the Soviet union. He was appointed First Deputy Premier and made an alliance with the new Prime minster, who at the time was the most powerful man, making Beria the second. He also opted for "De-Bolishevikization" of the Soviet unions foreign policy, seeing as the war had caused serious financial problems. However he made many enemies, and suspicious of his motives, the other party leaders were against him. Taking advantage of the spontaneous 1953 East Germany rising, they turned on him. Khrushchev persuaded the other leaders to support a Party coup against Beria; Beria's principal ally Malenkov abandoned him.

Following Stalin's death, unlike many of his followers, Beria was described as being overjoyed, and many of the others feared that he had his eyes aimed at taking over the Soviet union. He was appointed First Deputy Premier and made an alliance with the new Prime minster, Georgy Malenkov, who at the time was the most powerful man, making Beria the second. He also opted for "De-Bolishevikization" of the Soviet unions foreign policy, seeing as the war had caused serious financial problems. However he made many enemies, and suspicious of his motives, the other party leaders were against him. Taking advantage of the spontaneous 1953 East Germany rising, they turned on him. Khrushchev persuaded the other leaders to support a Party coup against Beria; Beria's principal ally Malenkov abandoned him.

He was arrested, and taken away to a guard house. Where he was tortured, and held under charges of Treason, Terrorism and Counter-Revolutionary actions. He was tried under the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, and was sentenced to death, X or chance to appeal. According to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling. The body of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was subsequently cremated and buried around Moscow's forest.

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 Beria was also a sexual offender and deviant of the highest tier. He routinely raped and abused women who had been taken from the streets for this purpose. Anyone who tried to resist him, he would have them killed. His depravity was well known, and Stalin himself was said to be terrified when he was informed that his own daughter had been left alone with Beria.
-Following Stalin's death, unlike many of his followers, Beria was described as being overjoyed, and many of the others feared that he had his eyes aimed at taking over the Soviet union. He was appointed First Deputy Premier and made an alliance with the new Prime minster, who at the time was the most powerful man, making Beria the second. He also opted for "De-Bolishevikization" of the Soviet unions foreign policy, seeing as the war had caused serious financial problems. However he made many enemies, and suspicious of his motives, the other party leaders were against him. Taking advantage of the spontaneous 1953 East Germany rising, they turned on him. Khrushchev persuaded the other leaders to support a Party coup against Beria; Beria's principal ally Malenkov abandoned him.
+Following Stalin's death, unlike many of his followers, Beria was described as being overjoyed, and many of the others feared that he had his eyes aimed at taking over the Soviet union. He was appointed First Deputy Premier and made an alliance with the new Prime minster, Georgy Malenkov, who at the time was the most powerful man, making Beria the second. He also opted for "De-Bolishevikization" of the Soviet unions foreign policy, seeing as the war had caused serious financial problems. However he made many enemies, and suspicious of his motives, the other party leaders were against him. Taking advantage of the spontaneous 1953 East Germany rising, they turned on him. Khrushchev persuaded the other leaders to support a Party coup against Beria; Beria's principal ally Malenkov abandoned him.
 He was arrested, and taken away to a guard house. Where he was tortured, and held under charges of Treason, Terrorism and Counter-Revolutionary actions. He was tried under the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, and was sentenced to death, X or chance to appeal. According to Moskalenko's later account,<sup> </sup>Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy<u><sup> </sup></u>before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling. The body of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was subsequently cremated and buried around Moscow's forest.