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'''Lavrentiy Beria''' (29 March 1899 - 23 December 1953) was a high ranking official in the communist party, a renound and skilled politcal player, and a cold blood killer, he was one of the few men who could scare even [[Stalin]].

==History==

Initally working for the Anti-Bolshevik Mussavistis in Baku, when the red army took over the city, Beria was saved purely because there was no time to arrange it. In 1919, aged twenty he started his career in state security and in 1920-21 (accounts differ) he joined Cheka (the orginal Bolshevik secret police). In 1922 he was head of the Georgian branch of Cheka's successor. His ruthlessness and brutality repression of the Georgian national uprising in 1924, in which he had 10,000 people exercuted, caused him to be premoted to Transcaucasian OGPU and him recieving the Order of the Red Banner.

Initally working for the Anti-Bolshevik Mussavistis in Baku, when the red army took over the city, Beria was saved from execution purely because there was no time to arrange it. In 1919, aged twenty he started his career in state security and in 1920-21 (accounts differ) he joined Cheka (the orginal Bolshevik secret police). In 1922 he was head of the Georgian branch of Cheka's successor. His ruthlessness and brutality repression of the Georgian national uprising in 1924, in which he had 10,000 people exercuted, caused him to be premoted to Transcaucasian OGPU and him recieving the Order of the Red Banner.

Throught the 1920's and 1930's he rose through the ranks at a incredible pace, speciallising in the inteligence and counter inteligence operations of Cheka and its many successors. Ultimately becoming the leader of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). According to legend, he personally strangled the man who held the job before him, to ensure the possition for his premotion. In 1935 he had become one of Stalins most trusted and capable subordinates.

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 '''Lavrentiy Beria''' (29 March 1899 - 23 December 1953) was a high ranking official in the communist party, a renound and skilled politcal player, and a cold blood killer, he was one of the few men who could scare even [[Stalin]].
 ==History==
-Initally working for the Anti-Bolshevik Mussavistis in Baku, when the red army took over the city, Beria was saved purely because there was no time to arrange it. In 1919, aged twenty he started his career in state security and in 1920-21 (accounts differ) he joined Cheka (the orginal Bolshevik secret police). In 1922 he was head of the Georgian branch of Cheka's successor. His ruthlessness and brutality repression of the Georgian national uprising in 1924, in which he had 10,000 people exercuted, caused him to be premoted to Transcaucasian OGPU and him recieving the Order of the Red Banner.
+Initally working for the Anti-Bolshevik Mussavistis in Baku, when the red army took over the city, Beria was saved from execution purely because there was no time to arrange it. In 1919, aged twenty he started his career in state security and in 1920-21 (accounts differ) he joined Cheka (the orginal Bolshevik secret police). In 1922 he was head of the Georgian branch of Cheka's successor. His ruthlessness and brutality repression of the Georgian national uprising in 1924, in which he had 10,000 people exercuted, caused him to be premoted to Transcaucasian OGPU and him recieving the Order of the Red Banner.
 Throught the 1920's and 1930's he rose through the ranks at a incredible pace, speciallising in the inteligence and counter inteligence operations of Cheka and its many successors. Ultimately becoming the leader of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). According to legend, he personally strangled the man who held the job before him, to ensure the possition for his premotion. In 1935 he had become one of Stalins most trusted and capable subordinates.