Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician. He was the longest-lived and most influential of Stalin’s secret police chiefs. Beria oversaw the Soviet atomic bomb project and was responsible for organising the Katyn massacre. After Stalin’s death in March 1953, Beria became First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and head of the Ministry of Internal...