As Vice-President of the State Committee for Defense during WWII he intensified Soviet armament production, and after Stalin's death briefly shared power with Khrushchev, Molotov, and Malenkov, but was soon accused of conspiracy and shot after a mock trial.
As Vice-President of the State Committee for Defense during WWII he intensified Soviet armament production, and after Stalin's death briefly shared power with Khrushchev, Molotov, and Malenkov, but was soon accused of conspiracy and shot after a mock trial. In 1931, he became political head of the Transcaucasian republics, the culmination of a series of leadership positions he held in his native Georgia, including head of the Georgian branch of the Cheka. FTP, who was this Soviet secret police chief who oversaw Stalin's political purges?
As Vice-President of the State Committee for Defense during WWII he intensified Soviet armament production, and after Stalin's death briefly shared power with Khrushchev, Molotov, and Malenkov, but was soon accused of conspiracy and shot after a mock trial.
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria