One source notes that immediately prior to this man's arrest he asked why his enemies were "searching for fleas in my trousers." He publicly exposed the marital infidelity of Redens, his former superior, in order to supplant him. This man achieved party fame for penning the book On the History of Bolshevik Organizations in Transcaucasia, a fawning biography of Stalin. According to Molotov's memoirs, this man boasted that he had poisoned Stalin to prevent future purges. With his one-time ally (*) Gregory Malenkov, he eliminated opponents in the Leningrad Affair. He was eventually arrested and e
One source notes that immediately prior to this man's arrest he asked why his enemies were "searching for fleas in my trousers." He publicly exposed the marital infidelity of Redens, his former superior, in order to supplant him. This man achieved party fame for penning the book On the History of Bolshevik Organizations in Transcaucasia, a fawning biography of Stalin. According to Molotov's memoirs, this man boasted that he had poisoned Stalin to prevent future purges. With his one-time ally (*) Gregory Malenkov, he eliminated opponents in the Leningrad Affair. He was eventually arrested and executed in 1953 after being condemned by Khrushchev.  During World War II, he supervised the Soviet atomic bomb project, controlled domestic labor camps, and ordered his department to engage in the Katyn Forest massacre. For 10 points, name this notorious head of the NKVD under fellow Georgian Stalin.
One source notes that immediately prior to this man's arrest he asked why his enemies were "searching for fleas in my trousers."
Lavrentiy Pavlovich {Beria}