Word: beria
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...power to make the charge was the power to make it stick. Did any of these feared and fearing men challenge Malenkov, demand to know what evidence there was to sustain so grave a charge, or rise to Comrade Beria's defense? The subsequent communique said only that the Central Committee had decided to expel Beria from the party as "an enemy of the people...
...days later, the 33-man Presidium of the Supreme Soviet met, formally removed Beria from his state and ministerial jobs, and ordered him to trial before the Soviet supreme court. The charge: treason...
...Plenum and the Presidium. One of Communism's great wolves had fallen, and the lesser wolves were tearing at his carcass. Reported Tass: "Speakers at the meeting spoke in wrathful indignation of the foul enemy of the party and the Soviet people-the international imperialist agent Beria," and the audience cheered...
...official party newspaper Pravda laid down the indictment: Beria 1) had been using the MVD (secret police) "against the party and its leadership and against the government ... by selecting workers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of personal loyalty to himself"; 2) had "impeded decisions on the most important and urgent problems concerning agriculture . . . with a view to undermining the collective farms and creating difficulty in the country's food supply"; 3) had striven "to activize bourgeois nationalist elements in the Union republics...
...news of Beria's downfall reached the outside world in a dawn broadcast from Radio Moscow, followed by an official Tass announcement. Then the speculations began. PURGE DECIDES POWER BATTLE FOR MALENKOV, headlined the Detroit News; MOLOTOV RISES AS PURGE PERILS MALENKOV, headlined the New York World-Telegram, which later front-paged...