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Lavrenty Beria | |
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Лаврентий Берия | |
 Beria in 1939 | |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 5 March 1953 – 26 June 1953 | |
| Premier | Georgy Malenkov |
| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Succeeded by | Lazar Kaganovich |
| Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 5 March 1953 – 26 June 1953 | |
| Preceded by | Sergei Kruglov |
| Succeeded by | Sergei Kruglov |
| In office 25 November 1938 – 29 December 1945 | |
| First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party | |
| In office 15 January 1934 – 31 August 1938 | |
| In office 14 November 1931 – 18 October 1932 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria 29 March 1899 Merkheuli, Sukhum,Okrug, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire (Today : Georgia) |
| Died | 23 December 1953 (aged 54) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (Today : Russia) |
| Nationality | Soviet, Georgian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1917-1953) |
| Spouse(s) | Nina Gegechkori |
| Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Signature |  |
| Military service | |
| Nickname(s) | Stalin’s Himmler Our Himmler |
| Rank | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
| Battles/wars | Russian Revolution (1917-1923),Russian Civil War (1917-1923),Polish-Soviet War (1918-1921) World War II (1939-1945),Korean War (1950-1953) |
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია, Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия, born 9 March 1899: Merkheuli, Russian Empire (Georgia or Abkhazia) - 23 December 1953: Moscow, Soviet Union). He was a Georgian-Bolshevik, Soviet politician.
Beria was born to a poor family in Georgia and joined the Bolsheviks when he was 18, which were led by Vladimir Lenin in 1917é
Beria was leader of the Soviet secret police of the under from 1938 to1945 (head of the NKVD) 1946-1953 (Head of the MVD). In 1953, aftewr Joseph Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev plotted to have Beria executed.