Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus, thanked Joseph Stalin, the former Soviet leader, and Lavrenti Beria, chief of the secret police of the Soviet Union, for nuclear weapons ...
"The Death of Stalin" (2017), Armando Iannucci’s second feature film, portrays the struggle for power following Stalin’s death over control of the USSR between Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), ...
The comedy of cruelty is rarely funnier or more brutal than when it comes from Armando Iannucci, a virtuoso of political evisceration. A comic talent who should be household-famous, he is best known ...
The Death of Stalin is a blacker-than-black comedy about the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and how they jockey for power after the demise of Joseph ...
Lavrentiy Beria was a truly evil man. From 1938 to 1953, Beria was chief of Joseph Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD. Under Beria, the NKVD conducted purges of Communist Party loyalists and executed ...
March the 5th last saw the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s death. The circumstances of his passing remain a mystery; some, like his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, supported the theory that her father was ...
Former national security adviser John Bolton compared Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, to one of the former Soviet Union’s most feared secret police chiefs, Lavrentiy Beria ...