Lavrentiy Beria: Difference between revisions

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==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.

Beria was born to a Georgian family in Merkhueli, Sukhum Okrug, Kutais Governorate in the Russian Empire (present-day Abkhazia, Georgia). 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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 ==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.
+Beria was born to a Georgian family in Merkhueli, Sukhum Okrug, Kutais Governorate in the Russian Empire (present-day Abkhazia, Georgia). 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.