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...pages included, among other things, pictures of the Bering Sea. Spot to be filled: a gap in the BER section of the encyclopedia caused by cutting out biography and portrait of Policeman Beria...
...side. At one point Kaganovich, a former Ukrainian commissar, called the company's attention to "the great friendship of all peoples of the So viet Union," listing the Soviet states with one pointed omission. "What about the Georgians?" snapped Armenian Mikoyan, an old friend of Georgian Lavrenty Beria who had been arrested four months before. "Oh yes," said Kaganovich without enthusiasm, "the Georgians...
...some future year. Perhaps he was Georgy Malenkov, the suety, waxen-faced Great Russian who donned the dictator's mantle. But perhaps it was another, Nikita Khrushchev, Marshal Zhukov, or some figure still invisible to the eye of the outside world. One it was not: Lavrenty Beria, b. 1899, d. 1953 at the hands of the executioner...
...Downfall of Beria...
Died. Lavrenty Pavlovicr; Beria, 54, Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union under Malenkov until his arrest for "high treason" last July; before a firing squad; in Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL...