Rescued diaries and personal notes. The most complete edition of Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich

Beria's personal archive. political testament power genius

My archive Manuscripts - birch bark, Stones - drafts. Letters of large growth On the bank of the river. I don't need paper, Instead of it - woods. They are not afraid of moisture: Tears, rain, dew. The tree holds the strings: A steep yellow veil Drenched in the light juice Of sticky hot tears. That's secure

PERSONAL ACCOUNT I've seen the best minds of my generation - madly killed, exhausted hysterical and naked... Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" A psycho is a person who has just realized what is happening around. William S. Burrows Tat: Year of the Monkey. The Last Day Before the New Year, 1968

Personal search Search. Found poems and a prison diary. Dragged back to the psych ward. Two operdams lead me into an empty cell and order me to strip naked. And the door of the cell is open to the corridor, where the convicts, orderlies and guards are standing. - Close the door! - I beg

Excerpts from an article by M. A. Fonvizin “On obedience to a higher authority, and what authority should be obeyed” (1823) NAPOLEON’S AUTHORITY The happy heir to the French Revolution, Napoleon, gradually achieving supreme power, changed the modest title of consul into a magnificent title

Myth No. 117. Stalin had a passion for power, he usurped power in the party and the state and established a regime of personal power in the Soviet Union. These myths have been roaming since the day when, at the suggestion of Lenin, on April 3, 1922, Stalin was elected general secretary parties.

STUDENT OF GENIUS AND TEACHER OF GENIUS What is high mathematical talent? Where does a child get a craving for the world of numbers, formulas, parabolas, hyperbolas? Inborn or bred? Alexis Clairaut at the age of twelve wrote a scientific work devoted to the study

Vertical division of power and regional horizontal of power The division of power along the vertical, in other words, between the Federation and the subjects of the Federation has become a real achievement of Russian democracy, our greatest democratic breakthrough. In accordance with

PERSONAL TABLE At first, the conversation quickly and cheerfully floats along a wide, full-flowing river. And suddenly, somehow imperceptibly, it carries him into a narrow, dull, motionless backwater. - So, after the day off, let's get to work. There is no need to postpone, the matter is worth it. - Please, follow me

Personal epilogue Each of us has favorite memories. So be it, I will share my memories of Grace. Saturday afternoon before the last Christmas of her life. All morning she baked butter cookies in the shape of stars, Christmas trees, Santa Clauses with

Cardinal Richelieu Political Testament, Or Principles of Government Dedication to the King Sovereign!

A personal question While Gibson was working in Turkey, in the company of his brother Archie, he met his friend, a correspondent for one of the English newspapers, and a young man's girlfriend. She turned out to be from Chisinau, which then belonged to Romania, but for everyone she was Russian

Archive Newspaper clipping from my mother's archive official history. In violation of the Great Commandment of the Orwellian Ministry of History, she kept newspaper clippings, typewritten manuscripts, copied by hand

Personal magnetism Thoughts flash and disappear in the brain like sparks from a fire. They are replaced by hundreds, thousands of thousands of new information, images, facts, ideas. There is, in most cases, regardless of our consciousness, a colossal work of the brain. And somewhere in the recesses of the mind,

Archive During his lifetime, Vysotsky himself had no time to put his manuscripts in order. Priceless autographs lay in disarray in the drawers of the desk and on the bookshelves. On the day of Vysotsky's death - July 25, 1980 - the first person to take care of the archive was Y. Lyubimov. He

ARCHIVE From the notes of Gayra Vesela In 1956, having received a message about the rehabilitation of my father, Zayara and I first of all went to Pokrovka to Uncle Vasya, he still lived there with his wife and children. Grandfather and grandmother are already dead; grandfather during the war, grandmother in 1948. Before last days waited

Sunset of genius. The authorities offer a choice: medicine or prison? Already by 1950, Turing had become an outcast, a kind of Trotsky of the computer revolution. Around the same time, work on Enigma also paid off: “I created a small program on a Manchester computer using only

In order for the label “secret” to actually appear, the state needs good reasons. Most of these cases are state secrets. But many personal archives famous people become secret at the request of the heirs, who do not want their ancestors to appear in an impartial light.

The most secret documents became in 1938

A radical change in the classification of information occurred in 1918, when the Main Directorate of Archives was organized under the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. The brochure “Keep the Archives” published by Bonch-Bruevich was distributed through the “ROSTA Windows” to all government agencies, where there was, in particular, a provision on the secrecy of certain information. And in 1938, the management of all archival affairs was transferred to the NKVD of the USSR, which classified a huge amount of information, numbering tens of thousands of files, as classified. Since 1946, this department has received the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, since 1995 - the FSB. Since 2016, all archives have been reassigned directly to the President of Russia.

Questions for the royal family

The so-called famous Novoromanovsky archive has not been declassified until the end royal family, most of which was initially classified by the Bolshevik leadership, and after the 90s, part of the archival documents was widely publicized. It is noteworthy that the work of the archive itself was strictly confidential. And one could guess about his activities only from indirect documents of employees: certificates, passes, payroll records, personal files of employees - that's what was left of the work of the secret Soviet archive. But the correspondence between Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna has not been fully disclosed. Palace materials relating to the relationship between the court and the ministries and departments of the First World War are also not available.

KGB Archives

Most of the KGB archives are classified on the grounds that the operational-search activities of many agents can still cause damage to counterintelligence work, reveal the methodology of its work. Some of the successful cases in the field of terrorism, espionage, smuggling are also mothballed. This also applies to cases related to intelligence and operational work in the GULAG camps.

Stalin's affairs

From the archive of the President of the Russian Federation to the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, 1,700 files were transferred, formed in the 11th inventory of the Stalin Fund, of which about 200 files were classified as secret. Of considerable interest are the cases of Yezhov and Beria, but they were published only in parts, and there is still no complete information on the cases of “executed enemies of the people”.

The confirmation that many more documents are to be declassified is the fact that in 2015, at four meetings of the Interdepartmental Expert Commission on declassifying documents under the Governor of St. Party archives are also a "secret". Of considerable interest to researchers are the decisions of the Council people's commissars or resolutions of the Council of Ministers, decisions of the Politburo. But most of the party archives are classified.

New archives and new secrets

The main task of the archive of the President formed in 1991 Russian Federation was a combination of documents from the former archive of the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, and then the subsequent period of the reign of Boris Yeltsin. The presidential archive has about 15 million different documents, but only a third of them, five million, are in the public domain today.

Secret personal archives of Vladi, Vysotsky, Solzhenitsyn

Personal funds Soviet leader Nikolai Ryzhkov, Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vladi are closed to the general public. Do not think that the documents appear classified "secret" only with the help of government officials. For instance, personal fund Alexander Solzhenitsyn, kept in the Russian state archive literature and art, is in secret storage because the heir - the wife of the writer Natalya Dmitrievna personally decides whether or not to make the documents public. She justified her decision by the fact that Solzhenitsyn's poems are often found in documents, which are not particularly good, and she would not want others to know about it.

In order to make public the materials of the investigation file, according to which Solzhenitsyn ended up in the Gulag, it was necessary to obtain the consent of two archives - the Ministry of Defense and the Lubyanka.

Plan for "secrets"

The head of the Russian Archive, Andrei Artizov, said in one of his interviews: “We are declassifying documents in accordance with our national interests. There is a declassification plan. To make a decision on declassification, three or four experts with knowledge of foreign languages ​​are needed, historical context, legislation on state secrets”.

Special commission on declassification

In order to declassify the materials, a special commission was created in each archive. Usually - from three people who decided on what basis to betray or not to give wide publicity to this or that document. Secret materials are of undoubted interest to a wide range of people, but historians warn that working with archives is a delicate matter and requires certain knowledge. This is especially true of secret archival materials. Not many people have access to them - thousands of documents from the times Russian Empire and Soviet Union classified for various reasons.

Failed architect

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The future People's Commissar of Internal Affairs was born on March 17, 1899 in a mountain village near Sukhumi. His mother Marta Jakeli, according to some sources, was a relative of the Georgian princes Dadiani. However, a noble origin did not help the woman: the family lived in poverty, she barely managed to feed her children.

Nevertheless, Lavrenty, who showed a keen interest in science and technology, received a good education at the Sukhumi Higher Primary School, and then entered the Mechanical and Technical Construction School in Baku. Why did Beria choose construction? From childhood, he drew well, and, probably, if not for the revolution, then in the future we would know him as a good architect. In addition, people who knew him claimed that the future People's Commissar of Internal Affairs had an amazingly subtle sense of beauty and was fond of photography.

After Beria moved to Baku, his mother and sister followed him. Only now Lavrenty fed them, giving away most of the already meager earnings. When he entered the Baku school, he wrote in the questionnaire: "I had and still don't have anything."

Football was his other passion. Beria's favorite team was Dynamo Tbilisi, and he himself once played on the field as a left midfielder. Beria tried not to miss the matches of his favorite team, and was very upset when she suffered defeats.

Confidant

In 1931, he became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia - in fact, the head of the republic. In 1938, Beria moved to Moscow, where he headed People's Commissariat Internal Affairs (NKVD). His rise was associated with the location of Stalin. According to one version, he earned the trust of the “leader of the peoples” by arranging a meeting for Stalin with his mother Ekaterina (Keke) Dzhugashvili in October 1935.

She was extremely unhappy with her son that he did not become a priest, but joined the "godless Bolsheviks." To promote the cult of Stalin, propagandists from the Communist Party were required to show the "long-awaited" meeting of a loving son with his mother. And the help of Beria, as the leader of Georgia, was most welcome in this matter.

He renovated Keke's house and had several conversations with her. What was happening was covered by Soviet newspapers: they periodically released touching reports, where the mother of the “leader of the peoples” began to regret that she had not given birth to another such son for the benefit of mankind. Well, later in the newspapers there were photographs of an embarrassed leader and a happy Keke. Citizens sobbed with emotion. The task was completed, Beria coped with it perfectly.

From that moment on, the future people's commissar of internal affairs became one of the closest "leader of the peoples." It is not surprising that Stalin entrusted him with the most important task: to clear the NKVD of the people of his predecessors - Heinrich Yagoda and Nikolai Yezhov.

sex giant

In addition to work, Beria found time for his personal life. So much so that rumors about his sexual insatiability circulated throughout Moscow. It was rumored that he personally looked out for pretty girls on the streets of the capital. At the same time, Beria was not interested in the age and social status of women. "He went hunting," the Muscovites whispered. Beria's favorite persons were allegedly delivered by the head of his security, Colonel of State Security Rafael Sarkisov.

Beria only had to point out the woman she liked, after which Sarkisov "invited" her to follow into the car. He also kept a list of his boss's mistresses. But already after the arrest of the all-powerful head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it turned out that there was not one, but three lists. One had 39 names, the other had 75, and the third had 115 at all.

After the arrest of the chief, Sarkisov testified that one of the women of Beria was a certain student of the institute foreign languages named Maya, who became pregnant from him and had an abortion. In addition, the head of the security of the people's commissar claimed that in 1943 Beria caught syphilis.

An active personal life on the side did not prevent the all-powerful drug addict from being an exemplary family man. He was married to Nino Gegechkori, whom he met in the early 1920s when he was at party work in Georgia. In 1924, the couple had a son, Sergo, who became a design engineer for radar and missile systems.

It should be noted that Beria himself confirmed information about his adventures and the role of Sarkisov. During the interrogation on July 8, 1953, answering the question whether Sarkisov performed the role of Beria's pimp, he answered that he "did something." "I will not deny this," the former interior minister admitted.

Bad house

In Moscow, Beria lived in a one-story modern mansion on Malaya Nikitskaya. Allegedly, it was there that the people's commissar met with the women whom Sarkisov brought to him. Visitors were waiting for a rich table and chic treats. After the feast followed an obscene proposal. Some researchers argue that in the event of refusal from the proximity of unfortunate women, a series of troubles awaited, up to criminal prosecution. Those who stayed with the owner of the mansion could count on certain preferences, for example, a promotion at work.

In one of the episodes of the "Top Secret" program, Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, a publicist and founder of the Gulag History Museum, claimed that a stone crusher was found in one of the basements of the house during the renovation of the building. He suggested that the remains of the victims were destroyed with the help of the tool. It is noteworthy that during the repair of the heating plant on Malaya Nikitskaya, a large number of bones were found, and their number grew as they approached the sinister mansion.

Now the "house of Beria" is occupied by the Tunisian embassy. According to the embassy workers, the spirit of the former owner appears there to this day. This happens several times a month. The scenario is the same: the sound of an approaching car is heard near the house, the door opens, unintelligible male and female voices are heard, which are removed towards the entrance to the mansion.

Shot in the forehead

Beria was arrested a few months after Stalin's death - at the end of June 1953. The verdict of the special court presence of the Supreme Court of the USSR, chaired by Marshal Ivan Konev, stated that the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs allegedly put together a hostile organization in order to seize power. Beria was charged with the intention to liquidate the socialist system and restore capitalism. The verdict was predictable: the death penalty.

Colonel Pavel Batitsky volunteered to carry it out. In the future, he will become one of the creators of the Soviet air defense, rising to the rank of marshal. But on a gloomy winter day on December 23, he pointed a Parabellum pistol at the forehead of Beria standing in front of him and immediately pulled the trigger.

The body of the executed was not buried, it was burned in the crematorium oven. Subsequently, Beria's relatives unsuccessfully tried to achieve a review of the 1953 case and the rehabilitation of their relative. However, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia in May 2000 put an end to this issue: it is not subject to rehabilitation.

Double?

However, Beria's son Sergo believes that his father was shot either during his arrest or immediately after. According to him, on that day in the mansion on Malaya Nikitskaya, machine gun fire was heard, and then a body covered with a sheet was carried out of the house on a stretcher. However, there is no reliable information that it was the marshal himself.

Sergo Beria at the same time stated that at the trial the role of his father was played by a double. Allegedly, Mitrofan Kuchava, a member of the special judicial presence, shared this information with him. The son of the disgraced head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also claimed that there was no cremation: the corpse of his father was allegedly dissolved in alkali.

Malenkov. The third leader of the Land of Soviets Balandin Rudolf Konstantinovich

The secret of Beria's mansion

The secret of Beria's mansion

The vicissitudes of Malenkov's fate are extraordinary. After Stalin's death, he became, in fact, his successor, carried out reforms that were beneficial for the people and the state, and gained considerable popularity. It would seem that nothing seriously threatened his continued tenure in high office.

Of course, he tried to ensure that for the members of the Communist Party, especially the privileged ones, ideological principles unconditionally prevailed over material or career aspirations. Yes, in this respect Khrushchev turned out to be more cunning, more resourceful, "gut feeling" the mood of the party nomenklatura. He managed to win her sympathy. But could this alone predetermine the fall of Malenkov and the rise of Khrushchev?

In my opinion, there should have been better reasons for such drastic changes.

Nothing prevented Georgy Maksimilianovich from abandoning his hard line in limiting the power and possibilities of the partocracy. It is unlikely that he was the same principled and adamant supporter of the ideas of socialism and communism, like Stalin. In subsequent years, he constantly gave way to the assertive, if necessary "naive" and dodgy Khrushchev. Why?

When a historian like Roy Medvedev, thoroughly saturated with politicking, naively refers to the weakness of Malenkov, who allegedly let go of the levers of power, one must be too naive, not to say more, to agree with this. We know how boldly Georgy Maximilianovich fought against the Trotskyists, how firmly he acted under Stalin, showed courage during the war, survived the disgrace with dignity and managed to reassert himself in the upper rungs of power.

Weak people under Stalin would not have been in the leadership of the state. What in what, but you can’t reproach them for weakness.

Why would he suddenly turn out to be so pliable under the pressure of Nikita Sergeevich? Soft and relaxed? Why did not try to enlist the support of the party nomenklatura? Not smart enough? Unlikely. She showed him her attitude to the encroachment on her material possibilities.

In my opinion, an intelligible answer to these questions can only be obtained if the secret of Beria's mansion is revealed.

Let us recall how quickly and brutally the attack on him was organized. Sergo, the son of Lavrenty Pavlovich, having learned about the scale of this operation, came to the conclusion that this could only be done to destroy his father. Why else would they shoot almost in the center of Moscow? Wasn't it possible to wait just a few hours, or a day or two, when Beria would be officially removed from office? His guards would be disbanded, and the residence seized in favor of the state.

It is also very strange that the guards of the mansion offered armed resistance to their colleagues or even to their direct superiors. Was it really impossible to do without victims? It would seem that seizing by force, storming his house, and even engaging in a shootout with guards, would make no sense if the owner was not in it.

And still…

There is another reason why, almost simultaneously with the isolation of Lavrenty Pavlovich, an attack on his Moscow mansion should have been organized.

According to very plausible rumors, Beria collected compromising materials on all or almost all of the major party leaders. These papers could be kept in his work or home office. It was most advisable to keep the most important materials of this kind in his mansion-fortress under reliable protection and under the supervision of his son. The latter could, if necessary, use them.

Here is the testimony of P. A. Sudoplatov: “In April 1953, I began to notice some changes in Beria’s behavior. Talking on the phone in my presence (and sometimes several other senior state security officers) with Malenkov, Bulganin and Khrushchev, he openly criticized the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the party, addressed them familiarly, like “you” ...

One day, going into Beria's office, I heard him arguing on the phone with Khrushchev:

Listen, you yourself asked me to find a way to eliminate Bandera, and now your Central Committee is preventing the appointment of competent workers in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, professionals in the fight against nationalism.

Beria's cheeky tone in dealing with Khrushchev puzzled me: after all, he had never allowed himself such liberties when his subordinates were nearby.

Such a change in Beria's behavior can be explained by the fact that after Stalin's death he received and kept materials compromising, in particular, Khrushchev.

Consequently, Beria had to give an order to his guards not to let anyone into his home office under any circumstances without the personal order of the owner or his son. While the "compromising evidence" was in the hands of Lavrenty Pavlovich, he felt safe and could blackmail his colleagues.

For this reason alone, Khrushchev, Bulganin, Zhukov and some other persons, including Malenkov, were interested in storming Beria's mansion. This required surprise and promptness. Much depended on whose hands the "compromising evidence" would fall into. And Khrushchev tried to make sure that he was that person. The most likely leader of this operation was Serov. Although it is possible that it was carried out by military intelligence.

Now all the trump cards in the game for power were in the hands of Nikita Sergeevich. As P. A. Sudoplatov wrote: “Archival documents show that Khrushchev seized the initiative after the arrest of Beria.” He got the opportunity to destroy information discrediting him, obtained from Beria's safe, while at the same time gaining the opportunity to blackmail his colleagues: Malenkov, Bulganin, Zhukov, etc. Now he behaved cheekily with them, demonstrating his superiority.

Among the compromising materials stored in Beria's safe, there were almost certainly materials related to the "Leningrad case". One of the main points of accusation was the falsification of election results by the party leaders of Leningrad at the party conference. In Stalin's time, this was considered a serious crime.

“For us,” wrote P. A. Sudoplatov, “the most terrible crime of a high-ranking party or statesman there was treason, but the falsification of party elections was no less a crime. The cause of the party was sacred, and in particular intra-party elections by secret ballot, which were considered the most effective instrument of intra-party democracy ...

Now we know that the results of the counting of votes during the secret ballot in Leningrad in 1948 were indeed falsified, but the convicts had nothing to do with it. The Politburo in full force, including Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev and Beria, unanimously adopted a decision obliging Abakumov to arrest and try the Leningrad group ... ”According to him,“ the motives that forced Malenkov, Beria and Khrushchev to destroy the Leningrad group were clear: to strengthen their power ".

Consequently, each of the aforementioned "trinity" almost certainly informed Stalin about how dangerous the actions and plans of competitors were for the unity of the party. For Khrushchev, it was most important to destroy all traces of his denunciations, which he tried to do, keeping the "compromising evidence" on Malenkov.

Georgy Maximilianovich found himself in a difficult position. He had the opportunity to get rid of only part of the documents on the "Leningrad case", which were kept with him. In 1989, Izvestia of the Central Committee of the CPSU published the following information:

“The question of the criminal role of G. M. Malenkov in organizing the so-called “Leningrad case” was raised after the June (1957) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU. However, G. M. Malenkov, covering the traces of crimes, almost completely destroyed the documents related to the “Leningrad case”. The former head of the secretariat of G. M. Malenkov - A. M. Petrokovsky reported to the CPC at the Central Committee of the CPSU that in 1957 he made an inventory of documents seized from the safe of G. M. Malenkov's arrested assistant - D. N. Sukhanov. In the safe, among other documents, a folder was found with the inscription “Leningrad case”, which contained notes by V. M. Adrianov, personal notes by G. M. Malenkov dating back to the time of his train to Leningrad, more than two dozen scattered sheets of draft resolutions of the Politburo Central Committee concerning exclusion from the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) HA Voznesensky, abstracts of speeches by G. M. Malenkov in Leningrad and notes made by him at the bureau and plenum of the Leningrad regional committee and the city party committee. During the meetings of the June (1957) plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, G. M. Malenkov several times looked through the documents stored in the safe of D. N. Sukhanov, took many with him, and after he was removed from the Central Committee of the CPSU, did not return the materials from the folder "Leningrad case", stating that he destroyed them as personal documents. G. M. Malenkov at a meeting of the CPC at the Central Committee of the CPSU confirmed that he had destroyed these documents.

It is very significant that nothing is said about Beria, let alone Khrushchev. The materials on the first one no longer mattered, and Khrushchev during the period of perestroika was considered to be the initiator of the “thaw” and almost the father of Russian democracy.

It is no coincidence, of course, that Malenkov tried to find out from the arrested Sergo Beria where the archives of his father were located. Apparently, at that time Khrushchev had not yet admitted that they were with him. But at the first opportunity, he made it clear to Malenkov that he had compromising materials on him.

However, one should not exaggerate the importance for the life of the country of the struggle for power of certain state and party leaders. Objective factors have a more significant impact on the historical process: scientific and technological achievements, changes in social structure society and the spiritual sphere, the transformation of the natural environment, and speaking generally - the evolution of the technosphere, the area of ​​global human activity.

Over the past two decades, historiosophy (or philosophy of history) has become predominantly a means of ideological struggle. It is used not for the sake of understanding society, but as a tool for the spiritual enslavement of people. Archaic views of the historical process became popular as a result of the efforts of several leaders of the major powers, their personal relationships, and internal politics are considered as cunning intrigues, intrigues and crimes in the struggle for personal power.

This was partly due to the desire of many historiographers, accustomed to collecting and arranging in chronological order facts, claim their philosophical understanding. Previously, they had a relatively reliable materialistic basis (for Soviet specialists, the so-called system of historical materialism). Having discarded it as a product of the Marxist ideology, historiographers, incapable of independent creative searches, have lost all guidelines.

In this book, too, too much space is devoted to the relationship of several main actors. But such is the specificity of any biography. We just need to constantly keep in mind that all this rather vile overt or covert struggle for power is taking place against the backdrop of grandiose natural and man-made processes. Only very few individuals, at least somehow corresponding to the scale of Lenin and Stalin, manage to withstand this pressure and direct it in a certain direction.

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From the book Marshal Zhukov. Opala author Karpov Vladimir Vasilievich

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author Mukhin Yury Ignatievich

Under the protection of Beria A on December 29, 1950, a secretary came into Beria's office to pick up signed papers, and lingered, waiting for Beria to finish writing a resolution on the next document. - By the way, Comrade Beria. From the personnel department of Moscow State University they called about Lavrentiev - they

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From the book Thus Spoke Kaganovich author Chuev Felix Ivanovich

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From the book Kremlin-1953. Fatal power struggle author Mlechin Leonid Mikhailovich

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author Grugman Raphael

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From the book Soviet Square: Stalin-Khrushchev-Beria-Gorbachev author Grugman Raphael

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From the book Soviet Square: Stalin-Khrushchev-Beria-Gorbachev author Grugman Raphael

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