Personality extremely contradictory and ambiguous in the history of the USSR was Lavrenti Beria.Biography has acquired its myths and legends, and much is still unknown.During '54 he lived was a long way politician.
Born into a peasant family in 1899 in the territory of modern Abkhazia.Thanks to the efforts of parents studied in higher primary school Sukhumi, and then went to Baku and entered the secondary structural mechanics and technical schools.
Already in 1915, during the period of study, Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria was active in the underground Marxist circle, and in subsequent years was in various positions and carried out orders of the Bolsheviks in the Caucasus.One of the main areas of counter-intelligence work was in Baku during the Turkish occupation.
At the same time Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich went on to study at the school and in 1919 received a diploma.And in 1917, he visited the Romanian front.
in 1920 was active in state security agencies of Azerbaijan and Georgia.Here, at different times, he was a fairly large office and leadership positions.During this period he took part in suppressing the uprising of the Mensheviks in Georgia, for it was subsequently awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the USSR.
In the thirties Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria goes to party work.Since 1932, he served as First Secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Committee and the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Georgia.In 1937, during the mass terror, he took part in the repression of many party workers of his country and Armenia, who were accused of plotting to detach the Caucasus from the Soviet Union.
In 1938, he first became a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the end of the year, appointed Commissar of the Interior.If there has been a drastic reduction of repression, as well as many amnestied and released.However, for some documents, in 1940, on his orders were executed Polish prisoners of war in the territory of Ukraine and Belarus.Also in the post Commissioner of Internal Affairs and head of the State Security Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria headed mass deportations of representatives of different peoples held in the 40s.Thus, under his leadership it was resettled Chechens, Ingush, Meskhetian Turks, Kurds, Khemshins.
In the postwar years Beria was appointed to lead the project to create a Soviet nuclear weapons.After a successful test of the atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk in 1949 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.
In 1953, after Stalin died, he became head of the newly formed Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of State Security attached to it, in addition, the first Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union.Beria's position and influence made him one of the main contenders for the post of head of state.
As head of security agencies, Lavrenty Beria sought to strengthen its position.Already in the first months after the death of Stalin have been revised many things, including known "doctors' case", also it underwent a major amnesty.
In June 1953, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Khrushchev, Beria was accused of treason, after which the latter was arrested by a group led by marshals Zhukov and detained.December 23, 1953 he was shot.
