Lavrentiy Beria

(1899-1953)

Georgian Soviet NKVD police chief under fellow Georgian and Soviet leader Stalin

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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია, romanized: lavrent'i beria, 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941. He later officially joined the Politburo in 1946.

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Born	29 March 1899 Merkheuli, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	23 December 1953 (aged 54) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Zodiac	Aries
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