The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...
In it, Bolton compared Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, who was head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the ...
Stalin was furious. Secret police and army units poured across the countryside, seized grain stocks, ransacked barns and surrounded rebellious villages with machine guns. Houses, barns ...
The accused were released only in the fall of 1953, about six months after Stalin died. Meanwhile, they were fed, and the secret police tried to hide signs of their torture and food deprivation.
members of an elusive secret society were arrested by Joseph Stalin's secret police. Could these have been the last of the Russian Templars? Some historians argue this was an essential part of ...
In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.
Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he ... His activities become known to the Tsarist secret police and he is forced to go underground. He joins the Bolshevik party and conducts guerrilla ...
not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?