Artwork

Content provided by PodcastOne and Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by PodcastOne and Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast App
Go offline with the Player FM app!

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria – The Red Monster of the USSR

36:04
 
Share
 

Manage episode 401765308 series 2565806
Content provided by PodcastOne and Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by PodcastOne and Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian, like Stalin, who called him ‘my Himmler’. Involved in revolutionary activities from his teens and head of the secret police in Georgia in his twenties, he supervised the ruthless 1930s purges in the region and arrived in Moscow in 1938 as deputy to Nikolai Yezhov, aka ‘the blood-thirsty dwarf’, head of the Soviet secret police. He soon succeeded Yezhov, who was shot on Stalin’s orders, apparently at Beria’s prompting. Beria, who went on to run the Soviet network of slave-labour camps, was notorious for his sadistic enjoyment of torture and his taste for beating, raping and murdering young women and girls. Bald and bespectacled, by the time of Stalin’s death in 1953 he was one of the most hated men in the country.


Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theserialkillerpodcast

Website: https://www.theserialkillerpodcast.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theskpodcast

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serialkillerpod

Twitter: https://twitter.com/serialkillerpod

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-serial-killer-podcast.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  continue reading

246 episodes

Artwork
iconShare
 
Manage episode 401765308 series 2565806
Content provided by PodcastOne and Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by PodcastOne and Thomas Rosseland Wiborg-Thune or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian, like Stalin, who called him ‘my Himmler’. Involved in revolutionary activities from his teens and head of the secret police in Georgia in his twenties, he supervised the ruthless 1930s purges in the region and arrived in Moscow in 1938 as deputy to Nikolai Yezhov, aka ‘the blood-thirsty dwarf’, head of the Soviet secret police. He soon succeeded Yezhov, who was shot on Stalin’s orders, apparently at Beria’s prompting. Beria, who went on to run the Soviet network of slave-labour camps, was notorious for his sadistic enjoyment of torture and his taste for beating, raping and murdering young women and girls. Bald and bespectacled, by the time of Stalin’s death in 1953 he was one of the most hated men in the country.


Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theserialkillerpodcast

Website: https://www.theserialkillerpodcast.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theskpodcast

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serialkillerpod

Twitter: https://twitter.com/serialkillerpod

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-serial-killer-podcast.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  continue reading

246 episodes

All episodes

×
 
Loading …

Welcome to Player FM!

Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.

 

Quick Reference Guide