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|fullname = Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria

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|crimes = [[War crimes]], [[torture]], mass murder, political corruption, rape

|goals = Accumulate as much power as possible

|hobby = Killing, raping women}}{{Quote|He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.|Lavrentiy Beria}}

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

{{Quote|He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.|Lavrentiy Beria}}

'''Lavrentiy Beria''' (March 29th, 1899 - December 23rd, 1953) was a high ranking official in the communist party, a renound and skilled politcal player, and a cold blooded killer, one of the few men who could scare even [[Stalin|Joseph Stalin]]. He is best known for having served as the chief of the [[NKVD]].

Stalin often referred to him as "Russia's [[Heinrich Himmler|Himmler]]".

==History==

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 brutal repression of the Georgian national uprising in 1924, in which he had 10,000 people executed. This resulted in him being promoted to Transcaucasian OGPU and receiving 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 brutal repression of the Georgian national uprising in 1924, in which he had 10,000 people executed. This resulted in him being promoted to Transcaucasian OGPU and receiving the Order of the Red Banner.

Throught the 1920's and 1930's he rose through the ranks at an incredible pace, specialising in the intelligence and counter intelligence 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 position for his promotion. In 1935 he had become one of Stalin's most trusted and capable subordinates.

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 |crimes = [[War crimes]], [[torture]], mass murder, political corruption, rape
 |goals = Accumulate as much power as possible
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-'''Lavrentiy Beria''' (March 29th, 1899 - December 23rd, 1953) was a high ranking official in the communist party, a renound and skilled politcal player, and a cold blooded killer, one of the few men who could scare even [[Stalin|Joseph Stalin]].
+{{Quote|He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.|Lavrentiy Beria}}
+'''Lavrentiy Beria''' (March 29th, 1899 - December 23rd, 1953) was a high ranking official in the communist party, a renound and skilled politcal player, and a cold blooded killer, one of the few men who could scare even [[Stalin|Joseph Stalin]]. He is best known for having served as the chief of the [[NKVD]].
 Stalin often referred to him as "Russia's [[Heinrich Himmler|Himmler]]".
 ==History==
-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 brutal repression of the Georgian national uprising in 1924, in which he had 10,000 people executed. This resulted in him being promoted to Transcaucasian OGPU and receiving 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 brutal repression of the Georgian national uprising in 1924, in which he had 10,000 people executed. This resulted in him being promoted to Transcaucasian OGPU and receiving the Order of the Red Banner.
 Throught the 1920's and 1930's he rose through the ranks at an incredible pace, specialising in the intelligence and counter intelligence 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 position for his promotion. In 1935 he had become one of Stalin's most trusted and capable subordinates.