Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet politician and NKVD police chief
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Stalin's secret police chief from 1938 to 1945, Beria ran the NKVD during WWII and became synonymous with Soviet state terror.
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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Soviet criminal and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945 during the country's involvement in the Second World War. He was also a serial rapist and had killed some of his victims. His victims were primarily young women and girls.
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