@@Driimweever I think terror is the great equaliser. When you’re desperate to live and you know the end is present. Well some people will find a way to suck a bowling ball through a garden hose if it’ll buy them another 2 seconds.
@@az6877 Lavrentiy Beria had an Atheistic worldview, where is simply existence and oblivion. In that scheme he is not in agony, he is simply gone. But in a Theistic world, you are most correct. I'm sure he and Heinrich Himmler have a lot to talk about. But I think you will agree it is not the same as being worked to death, starved to death, beaten to death.
@@WildBikerBill well, if being atheist would mark the end I would be the first atheist out there…as for being starved to death, he would starve million times to death rather then would go through what he is going through right now.
Stalin's comparison underestimates Beria's evil. Himmler was a paper pusher who was physically sickened when he saw the death camps. Beria loved his work. Supposedly, Marshal Zhukov thought that his participation in Beria's death was his single biggest contribution to the USSR.
Well….I think that although Himmler was revolted by the actual squalor of the camps, he didn’t regret his role or lose any sleep over what he did except to worry if he would be held accountable and punished. Don’t think he was a naive bureaucrat, from what I have seen.
I wouldn’t say Stalin totally trusted Beria. Apparently, there was one time when Stalin knew that Beria was alone with his daughter so he called and told her to get away from Beria immediately.
Stalin didn't trust anyone... But he probably trusted Beria more than most others, in part because of their common heritage and long term relationship.
Beria was a skillful psychopath, he was driven by revenge, because red army almost executed him when they invaded Georgia. He probably was much worse than Stalin when it comes to ruthlessness, because of his tell tales and lies that sent innocent folks in Gulag or execution anyone who he thought stood in his way. He would be on opening ceremony with some people and later that day those people would be facing an execution sentence. Beria’s brutality is well known because he didn’t really had any clear goal, he was just killing people for fun and destroying the party intelligence network from within.
the coup happened in june or july and he was tried and executed in december. He wasnt just tried and dragged out although 6 nkvd men were, he was executed a little while later.
And yet tankies believe that looking up to such people make them the biggest hope the humanity has in achieving social justice. I guess everyone is equal in a massgrave.
It's about time that this bastard Beria had an episode covering his vicious and utterly ruthless crimes against his own countrymen and enemies alike. Beria was every bit as brutal, calculating and diabolical than Himmler, Heydrich, Einsatzgruppen commanders and Gestapo personel. Great episode by the way!
That's a stretch. As bad as Beria was, he was indiscriminate unlike the diabolical Nazis who murdered and even genocided simply based on racial hierarchy. They are not comparable, Nazis were far far worse.
@@michaelsinger4638 Nazis were known and even encouraged to rape Polish, Jewish and Russian women on a massive scale. We're talking millions. So no, Beria as one man is far less worse than Nazis.
"He had no defense council, with no right to appeal" unlike his countless victims who no doubt were all allowed to lawyer up and defend themselves fairly.
I appreciated the satirical and almost absurdist way this sordid history is handled in the movie, "The Death of Stalin." Amazing how banal and petty evil can be.
While it's true that Beria was tried and executed during the course of a struggle for power after Stalin's death, it seems pretty obvious that this was not simply done for political reasons. The man was uniquely dangerous to his fellow humans, and the line of people with sound personal reasons for wanting him disposed of was very long.
I am convinced that Beria had already worked out how each of them would be conveniently eliminated and/or neutralized. Few of these men had anything like a conscience, but at least a few of them knew that if LB ended up running the USSR he would destroy it.
Really? Stalin and that government committed so many atrocities and they all should have been tortured and then hanged. This guy was a total psychopath. Disgraceful human beings and that entire government should have been taken out.
The only person who can control him was Stalin, and with old man dead, they had to get rid of him because he would be out of control, also it’s convenient to blame everything on him so the others can come out clean.
If he was really begging for his life at the end, before being shot, that was a great end for such a heartless killer of innocents. A lot of his victims deserved the mercy he wanted.
You should definitely take anything toold abot him with a grain of salt. As it is very likely his house was shot up (killing his guards and him) and trial was held after his death. Also he suported more freedoms for soviet republics (thus taking away some power from Moscow). He also wanted to have better relationships with the west. Communist party wasn't very supportive of those ideas so they blamed him for pretty much everything.
@@JK-br1mu Yes he was as were everybody else at higher positions in the communist party at the time. They just shifted all the blame upon him because they needed a scapegoat and his political ideas were too western. And since he was killed before trial he had no chance to defend himself.
@@larryhall2805 You are correct. He did say arresting Beria was the highlight of his career. Beria was behind a campaign of trying to tarnish Zhukov's career and image.
@@jaybird1229 Thank you for that affirmation. I can't imagine the type of stress Stalin's underlings were under. Always there's syncophants to pile on.
@@slappy8941 He was a Mingrelian-Georgian and raised as an Orthodox Christian. I guess Stalin always kept him near because of his Georgian background. Stalin was also a Georgian.
I read the autobiography of Zhukov and he said that Beria actually pissed himself knowing that he was going to be killed. He detested Beria like everyone else apparently.
This is a case where a small ,although monstrous man was given almost unlimited power. He used his authority to commit unspeakable crimes and when his downfall came he showed what a coward he really was.
"The downfall of tyrants comes not only from the efforts of justice, but as result from the very nature of living a twisted, amoral way of life." He understood death, but not mortality. He understood governance, but not order. He understood power, but not accountability. He understood cowardice, but not vigilance. He understood treachery, but not community.
_"The Tunisian Embassy...found some of his bondage/torture equipment..."_ Ironic, then, that just prior to his execution, Beria panicked and had to be bound and gagged. This is Karma.
I heard this mans name for the first time as a child growing up in Poland. When we learned of the Katyń massacre…even thou I was the 1970’s and the government was communist everyone knew.
@@conceptalfa that was the official government propaganda in Poland when I was growing up there. I recall my father told me that when he opened up polish encyclopedia in the early 50-ties under Katyń it was stated that it was a place where Nazis murdered Poles but when he opened up a new edition of the polish encyclopedia like a decade later - Katyń was simply missing, gone.
@@conceptalfa Technically yes but everyone in Poland knew it wasn’t the Germans. I was only 11 when we left Poland in 1984 but like all communist lies, everyone knew the actual truth. Everyone knew that these were Stalin era coverups and the people on the ground knew the actual truth and not what the world was hearing and seeing unfortunately.
I have studied both world wars for many years, and I have to say you do an excellent job on your videos. Your facts are precise and right on, it's not easy making videos about some of the most vile wicked human beings to have ever walked this earth, bravissimo.
Churchill provoced the Second WW why don't you tell a Story about Mr Felton ?? About Churchill and his "Berija" Bomber Harris .About all the lies against pre war Germany ??
the executioner walked in, aimed and fired, killing Beria instantly. there was nothing brutal about it. the entire thing would have taken no more than 5 maybe 10 seconds.
Always thought Beria was more Stalin's 'Bormann'. I mean job wise he was Himmler, but person wise.... dude was a Martin Bormann, dude was so depraved and evil the National Socialist were sickened by him
No, millions of people know about Katyn, at least in Europe. In Poland everybody knew since the massarce site was found in 1942 and a group of international medical scientists released a report. In Germany I learned about Katyn in Gymasium. Finally Andrej Waida made a movie which was shown in many countries worldwide and also in TV.
No, millions of people know about Katyn, at least in Europe. In Poland everybody knew since the massarce site was found in 1942 and a group of international medical scientists released a report. In Germany I learned about Katyn in Gymasium. Finally Andrej Waida made a movie which was shown in many countries worldwide and also in TV.
It was Said that Beria specifically instructed his Russian executioners to use pistols 🔫 of German make and caliber, to blame the crime on the Germans. It was ONLY after the exhumation and autopsy that the pathologists confirmed that this was the case..
I read the comments and I'm amazed at how calling him "pure evil" or the embodiment of evil simply elevates this piss ant to a higher level. People like Beria are everywhere. They are at work, at school, and members of the community you live in. Beria and Himmler still walk amongst us, but they don't have the power to unfold themselves. You just look around and you'll see a Beria or a Himmler or an Eichman.
Thanks for the overview, good job. The major purge of the Red Army took place in 1937/38, when Yezhov was NKVD chief. I hadn't heard that Beria strangled Yezhov. Yezhov was shot. Yezhov's arrest and interrogation file has been studied since the release of archive material post Gorbachev. If you have other information I would stand corrected.
Yezhow, the perpetrator of the murder of the 1.5 million victims, including over 100,000 Poles - reportedly was squealing pitifully when he was led to a room without windows, with a sewage grate in the middle of the tiled floor.
The book by M.P. Clark ‘Hierarchies of Greed’ compares Beria and Himmler, looks at Beria’s many crimes and explains the power brokers in Moscow at the time of Stalin’s death. A work of faction, it also offers an interesting and novel scenario as to how and why Beria was overthrown and executed.
@@kiuremneitor5425 yes it is, that's what makes it more chilly. I saw the house Beria lived in, he had buried young woman in the backyard! No wonder he was shot.
That's because Stalin knew the truth about Beria, particularly him being a reputed sex offender of children to grown women. It's rumored that Baria would sometimes rape several a night. This gave rise a popular urban legend about a black car that drives around snatching up children/women who are never seen again >>"Black Volga" Myth
Absolutely true, Stalin always made sure his daughter was never left at home alone with Brian. He knew what kind of sick perverted piece of human excrement he was. 1
@Elizabeth Blake RE: "It is my understanding that even Stalin didn't trust Beria with his own daughter." One would think that even a psychopath such as Beria wouldn't even think about touching the daughter of Stalin. In fact, I am somewhat surprised that, if Stalin even suspected that Beria might have been a danger to his daughter, he didn't have him "purged." After all, Stalin had killed many other people for a lot less tenable reasons.
The historical account describes Beria being absolutely glowing with excitement when it was clear that Stalin had finally died; clearly expecting that he, Beria would take over as #1. It's not hard to imagine how horrified everyone else must have been at the prospect of Beria having the ultimate power.
When evil men stare at their impending deaths, they usually cave in owing to the weight of guilt that assaults them along with the prospect of walking into a very dark and demon-filled eternity loaded with torment and despair.
Some sloppy research on this video. The purge of the Red Army where 3 of 5 Marshalls were executed, 14 of 16 army commanders, and, 30,000 other officers executed or sent to the Gulag was not in 1941, it was in 1937 during the Great Terror, and was done by Yezhov, not Beria.
The old cemetery at the monastery, from there the bones, if they had been with Beria, how much would have been screaming, and so very old bones, a proven fact.
His suffering wasn't long enough. He was sentenced and dragged off to be shot fairly quickly. Beria spent many years to have people brutally tortured and later executed. It was drawn out. It was also an industry.
It's somewhat ironic that somebody so ruthless would be so naive to think that begging and crying would spare him from the very people who witnessed his ruthlessness. His best course of action would have been to accept his fate and take it like a man. How pathetic!
If you want to get a laugh out of Beria's death, watch "The Death Of Stalin" starring Michael Palin. It may not be historically accurate, but it's kinda funny.
Always cheered his death, glad he got a taste of the true fear that he served up from his kitchen so many times. But then I have to pause- violence begets violence, and although both his and stalins demise ushered in SOME sense of stability, no one seemed willing to do away with the old way of doing things and say "no more". And thus, Beria's ghost- although an unmentionable name- almost carries on with business as usual.
Beria was the essence of utter malevolence, yet when it came for his time of reckoning he wept and pleaded for his life. He was truly a monster in human form.
The picture at 3:26 is nothing to do with Beria. It's a picture of the notorious Kaminski brigade, Russian axis collaborators, during the Warsaw uprising.
Beria's predecessor Yezhov had a bigger hand in the purges known as the Great Terror. Yezhov directed them as head of the NKVD. As to Beria whining and crying as he was led to his death, I've read contradictory things about his disposition at the time of his execution from esteemed sources such as Simon Sebag Montifiore and Robert Conquest. The former says Beria pleaded for his life and ultimately had to have, I believe, a towel shoved in his mouth to shut him up. While the later claims that Beria went quietly and stoically to.his death. Who knows?
The crazy thing about all this. Is that these power struggles are still going on in every country. And the people in charge are no less brutal than these you are currently talking about.
I would not describe a single shot to the head as brutal especially if we compare the brutality of their actions towards others, I say he got off lucky!
That photo of beria with the girl is probably one of the more horrific things I've ever seen. You can just see the horrors she has or is going to have inflicted on her.
it is not "the Gulags". The entire camp system in its entirety was called Gulag, which is an acronym that simply means "central administration of camps".
A funny historical fact: just seconds before the execution, Beria cried hysterically and begged for mercy, and then heavily shat his pants. Feces bursted loudly with a wet fart, loathsome stench spreaded around... In the next second, General Batitsky ended the coward's life with a headshot.
Levrenty Beria is what happens when someone fears neither God nor man and let’s their deepest, most depraved desires be fulfilled Levrenty Beria is human nature unbridled
I agree with Motta Man, that justified is that word, not brutal, to describe Beria’s execution, it was not a brutal execution, it was an execution… no previous torture, no previous physical suffering prior to death, just a one shot execution and that was it .
Beria was not born evil, one thing led to another, then another thing led to another thing... Then beria became evil. But i find that beria was more capable than himmler.
"The downfall of tyrants comes not only from the efforts of justice, but as result from the very nature of living a twisted, amoral way of life." He understood death, but not mortality. He understood governance, but not order. He understood power, but not accountability. He understood cowardice, but not vigilance. He understood treachery, but not community.
As bad as Stalin and the rest of the Soviet dictators were, I honestly think Beria would've been the worst of them. We're lucky Khrushchev deposed him--the world would've been unquestionably worse with him as general secretary.
This is why I'm glad there's a place called Hell. Beria is there occupying the worst aspects of it. It's comforting knowing he's being eternally tortured.
Sociapathical is a little weak a word for this man ? Well word's fail me to describe this monster in human form , maybe someone more able than me can can articulate what he was? Great upload these people need to be remembered
Isn’t it always sweet to hear that someone so evil cried and begged like a coward when justice came.
Indeed it is. I guess it must be impulse or instinct. He couldn’t have actually believed any amount of crying or begging would save him, could he?
@@Driimweever I think terror is the great equaliser. When you’re desperate to live and you know the end is present. Well some people will find a way to suck a bowling ball through a garden hose if it’ll buy them another 2 seconds.
In history it seems that those guys always are the biggest cowards when they finally get justice
I don't know about that. I'd prefer to keep my humanity as that's what differentiates me from people like him.
Although he deserved whatever he got we have no way of knowing what happened in his final moments.
Compared to the misery he inflicted on others, Beria had a merciful death.
Indeed. Being shot in the head, in a moment it is over.
@@WildBikerBill well, I am quite sure he is still in agony
@@az6877 Lavrentiy Beria had an Atheistic worldview, where is simply existence and oblivion. In that scheme he is not in agony, he is simply gone. But in a Theistic world, you are most correct. I'm sure he and Heinrich Himmler have a lot to talk about.
But I think you will agree it is not the same as being worked to death, starved to death, beaten to death.
@@WildBikerBill well, if being atheist would mark the end I would be the first atheist out there…as for being starved to death, he would starve million times to death rather then would go through what he is going through right now.
Amen.
Stalin's comparison underestimates Beria's evil. Himmler was a paper pusher who was physically sickened when he saw the death camps. Beria loved his work. Supposedly, Marshal Zhukov thought that his participation in Beria's death was his single biggest contribution to the USSR.
Chad Zhukov as always
Well….I think that although Himmler was revolted by the actual squalor of the camps, he didn’t regret his role or lose any sleep over what he did except to worry if he would be held accountable and punished. Don’t think he was a naive bureaucrat, from what I have seen.
@@Itried20takennames Correct!
lol the "just doing my job" excuse didn't work when the war was over and it doesn't work now!
Zhukov and Kruschev knew Beria would institute purges worse than ever before. Thankfully they eliminated him.
I wouldn’t say Stalin totally trusted Beria. Apparently, there was one time when Stalin knew that Beria was alone with his daughter so he called and told her to get away from Beria immediately.
Stalin didn't trust anyone... But he probably trusted Beria more than most others, in part because of their common heritage and long term relationship.
this is true
@@jwenting he trusted him to do the job but not on a personal level
Beria was a skillful psychopath, he was driven by revenge, because red army almost executed him when they invaded Georgia. He probably was much worse than Stalin when it comes to ruthlessness, because of his tell tales and lies that sent innocent folks in Gulag or execution anyone who he thought stood in his way.
He would be on opening ceremony with some people and later that day those people would be facing an execution sentence. Beria’s brutality is well known because he didn’t really had any clear goal, he was just killing people for fun and destroying the party intelligence network from within.
@@jwenting And I think Beria helped his paranoia quite a bit.
The movie “Death of Stalin” tells the story of Beria in incredibly good detail, and the movie is plain dark humor at its finest.
Agree
A great and funny film.
the coup happened in june or july and he was tried and executed in december. He wasnt just tried and dragged out although 6 nkvd men were, he was executed a little while later.
I actually thought the Zhukov scene was just a Hollywood thing and it actually happened in real life lol wow
I agree
Legitimately one of the most evil people to ever exist
And yet tankies believe that looking up to such people make them the biggest hope the humanity has in achieving social justice. I guess everyone is equal in a massgrave.
Stalin even warned his daughter to stay away from him.😳
@WinGate Mose I agree
He had to be evil 😈 in order to be ' Lucifer on earth 🌎's ' right-hand man !!
@@lunartears6761 Stalin warned Beria to stay away from his daughter…
I think justified is the word you were looking for.
Justified yes but I am thinking more of ironic
I'd use amusing but to each their own. :)
I think he got off lightly
I'd say it was about time ⏲ and should have happened years before.
Yes true definitely justice delivered.
It's about time that this bastard Beria had an episode covering his vicious and utterly ruthless crimes against his own countrymen and enemies alike. Beria was every bit as brutal, calculating and diabolical than Himmler, Heydrich, Einsatzgruppen commanders and Gestapo personel. Great episode by the way!
Even worse since Beria was also a mass rapist as well.
@@michaelsinger4638 think he's bad? Look up Oskar Dirlewanger
That's a stretch. As bad as Beria was, he was indiscriminate unlike the diabolical Nazis who murdered and even genocided simply based on racial hierarchy. They are not comparable, Nazis were far far worse.
@@michaelsinger4638 Nazis were known and even encouraged to rape Polish, Jewish and Russian women on a massive scale. We're talking millions. So no, Beria as one man is far less worse than Nazis.
@@michaelsinger4638 children as well
"He had no defense council, with no right to appeal" unlike his countless victims who no doubt were all allowed to lawyer up and defend themselves fairly.
Good point.
Well said
Counsel, not council.
: that's nonsense...hardly any of his victims could "lawyer up"...and he got what he deserved in the best Sowjet style.
@@stranraerwal I see some people are unfamiliar with sarcasm.
I appreciated the satirical and almost absurdist way this sordid history is handled in the movie, "The Death of Stalin." Amazing how banal and petty evil can be.
Yes we see your list Beria!
such a great movie
Human goodness is to be cultivated, as it is precious and rare. Evil is an easy course of behavior.
"Go back to Georgia dead boy!"
When u know zhukov who crushed Hitler till Berlin say that his most happiest and satisfying moment was seeing Beria killed, u know how evil he was.
While it's true that Beria was tried and executed during the course of a struggle for power after Stalin's death, it seems pretty obvious that this was not simply done for political reasons. The man was uniquely dangerous to his fellow humans, and the line of people with sound personal reasons for wanting him disposed of was very long.
Yeah, I think he was like Robespierre, where a bunch of people who were generally political rivals could agree “yeah, this guy needs to go.”
I'm sure nobody trusted him and knew what he was capable of.
I am convinced that Beria had already worked out how each of them would be conveniently eliminated and/or neutralized. Few of these men had anything like a conscience, but at least a few of them knew that if LB ended up running the USSR he would destroy it.
Really? Stalin and that government committed so many atrocities and they all should have been tortured and then hanged. This guy was a total psychopath.
Disgraceful human beings and that entire government should have been taken out.
The only person who can control him was Stalin, and with old man dead, they had to get rid of him because he would be out of control, also it’s convenient to blame everything on him so the others can come out clean.
"How brutal was the execution of Lavrentiy Beria?"
"Not enough."
If he was really begging for his life at the end, before being shot, that was a great end for such a heartless killer of innocents. A lot of his victims deserved the mercy he wanted.
You should definitely take anything toold abot him with a grain of salt. As it is very likely his house was shot up (killing his guards and him) and trial was held after his death. Also he suported more freedoms for soviet republics (thus taking away some power from Moscow). He also wanted to have better relationships with the west. Communist party wasn't very supportive of those ideas so they blamed him for pretty much everything.
@@kapsaline He was a mass-murdering criminal. The issues you mention, if true, are minor by comparison.
@@JK-br1mu Yes he was as were everybody else at higher positions in the communist party at the time. They just shifted all the blame upon him because they needed a scapegoat and his political ideas were too western. And since he was killed before trial he had no chance to defend himself.
Beria’s fate was one of the few times in history where you go “yeah, he got a suitable punishment.”
Didn't Gen. Zhukov say that the highpoint of his career was arresting Beria?
Not sure. But it would not surprise me. It had to feel good finally being rid of him.
He was a sick psychopath and presumably a coward who had a much too mercifull death for what he did to our world.
@@larryhall2805 You are correct. He did say arresting Beria was the highlight of his career. Beria was behind a campaign of trying to tarnish Zhukov's career and image.
@@jaybird1229 Thank you for that affirmation. I can't imagine the type of stress Stalin's underlings were under. Always there's syncophants to pile on.
Stalin's Himmler??? Beria makes Himmler look like a schoolteacher.
Yes, that’s what I thought, a total monster.
Both are devils,stop minimizing what himmler did
He had to mention the Nazis in some way just in case somebody brought up the fact that Beria was Jewish.
@@slappy8941 He was a Mingrelian-Georgian and raised as an Orthodox Christian. I guess Stalin always kept him near because of his Georgian background. Stalin was also a Georgian.
@@abranisdz34 Bingo. Human garbage, on both counts. Evil in the extreme.
I read the autobiography of Zhukov and he said that Beria actually pissed himself knowing that he was going to be killed. He detested Beria like everyone else apparently.
This is a case where a small ,although monstrous man was given almost unlimited power. He used his authority to commit unspeakable crimes and when his downfall came he showed what a coward he really was.
That’s why, in the United States, we have the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.
The final check and balance on government power.
@@bobkrohn8053 don't worry c19 will fix that for you
"The downfall of tyrants comes not only from the efforts of justice, but as result from the very nature of living a twisted, amoral way of life."
He understood death, but not mortality.
He understood governance, but not order.
He understood power, but not accountability.
He understood cowardice, but not vigilance.
He understood treachery, but not community.
The Tunisian Embassy in Moscow, which was where Beria's office was located, found some of his bondage/torture equipment a few years ago.
Tunisian embassy actually. But yeah it must have been a nightmare for the workers
@@ntluck1592 Thank you for the correction. 👍
@@GazB85 No problem
_"The Tunisian Embassy...found some of his bondage/torture equipment..."_ Ironic, then, that just prior to his execution, Beria panicked and had to be bound and gagged. This is Karma.
Also bones of his Female victims.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.....
I heard this mans name for the first time as a child growing up in Poland. When we learned of the Katyń massacre…even thou I was the 1970’s and the government was communist everyone knew.
podobnie, pozdrawiam
Yes, but at that time everyone thought it was the germans that executed that massacre, wasn't it so????
@@conceptalfa that was the official government propaganda in Poland when I was growing up there. I recall my father told me that when he opened up polish encyclopedia in the early 50-ties under Katyń it was stated that it was a place where Nazis murdered Poles but when he opened up a new edition of the polish encyclopedia like a decade later - Katyń was simply missing, gone.
@@olasek7972 yepp, that's what I'm saying....
@@conceptalfa Technically yes but everyone in Poland knew it wasn’t the Germans. I was only 11 when we left Poland in 1984 but like all communist lies, everyone knew the actual truth. Everyone knew that these were Stalin era coverups and the people on the ground knew the actual truth and not what the world was hearing and seeing unfortunately.
I have studied both world wars for many years, and I have to say you do an excellent job on your videos. Your facts are precise and right on, it's not easy making videos about some of the most vile wicked human beings to have ever walked this earth, bravissimo.
Churchill provoced the Second WW why don't you tell a Story about Mr Felton ?? About Churchill and his "Berija" Bomber Harris .About all the lies against pre war Germany ??
¨Quatsch. Dieses Video ist voller Behauptungen welche keinerlei Grundlage haben.
@@gerardfrederick5504 Hauptsache der Berija wurde damals neutralisiert, manchmal passieren auch gute Dinge
@@reicherosterreicher3486 what? Churchill was a nonentity that nobody listened to before the war.
Are you calling bunch of lies an excellent job? You should stop reading propaganda pamphlets....
the executioner walked in, aimed and fired, killing Beria instantly. there was nothing brutal about it. the entire thing would have taken no more than 5 maybe 10 seconds.
Always thought Beria was more Stalin's 'Bormann'.
I mean job wise he was Himmler, but person wise.... dude was a Martin Bormann, dude was so depraved and evil the National Socialist were sickened by him
Thank you for talking about the Katyn massacre. Very few people know about that. God Bless Poland !
No, millions of people know about Katyn, at least in Europe. In Poland everybody knew since the massarce site was found in 1942 and a group of international medical scientists released
a report. In Germany I learned about Katyn in Gymasium. Finally Andrej Waida made a movie which was shown in many countries worldwide and also in TV.
No, millions of people know about Katyn, at least in Europe. In Poland everybody knew since the massarce site was found in 1942 and a group of international medical scientists released
a report. In Germany I learned about Katyn in Gymasium. Finally Andrej Waida made a movie which was shown in many countries worldwide and also in TV.
It was Said that Beria specifically instructed his Russian executioners to use pistols 🔫 of German make and caliber, to blame the crime on the Germans.
It was ONLY after the exhumation and autopsy that the pathologists confirmed that this was the case..
God bless Poland
The Poles are a magnificent and honest people!
I read the comments and I'm amazed at how calling him "pure evil" or the embodiment of evil simply elevates this piss ant to a higher level. People like Beria are everywhere. They are at work, at school, and members of the community you live in. Beria and Himmler still walk amongst us, but they don't have the power to unfold themselves.
You just look around and you'll see a Beria or a Himmler or an Eichman.
He is so evil that he made Himmler looked like a joke.
Not really.
He has a position of himmler but he is simply straight john dwayne gacy.
he who lives by the sword , dies by the sword
Who lives by the gun, dies by the gun.
Please trust me when I tell you Not in my experience. Those that kill often live the longest, but are the most tortured, again. Trust me
@@desmondoggo1399 - I don't think Mengele lost much sleep when he " emigrated " to South America
@@desmondoggo1399 dude only the good die young……after death it’s heaven or hell for eternity….who wants to live until they 80
Matthew 26:52
Thanks for the overview, good job. The major purge of the Red Army took place in 1937/38, when Yezhov was NKVD chief. I hadn't heard that Beria strangled Yezhov. Yezhov was shot. Yezhov's arrest and interrogation file has been studied since the release of archive material post Gorbachev. If you have other information I would stand corrected.
Great knowledge! I honor that! Thank you.
Yezhow, the perpetrator of the murder of the 1.5 million victims, including over 100,000 Poles - reportedly was squealing pitifully when he was led to a room without windows, with a sewage grate in the middle of the tiled floor.
@@carcharinus6367 Beria shot Yezhov who had executed his predecessor Yagoda who is said to have poisoned his predecessor Menzhinsky.
The book by M.P. Clark ‘Hierarchies of Greed’ compares Beria and Himmler, looks at Beria’s many crimes and explains the power brokers in Moscow at the time of Stalin’s death. A work of faction, it also offers an interesting and novel scenario as to how and why Beria was overthrown and executed.
"His father was a landowner."
"He came from humble beginnings."
Uh. Choose one.
The first is the truth, the second is probably the Soviet "truth." His mother was also apparently descended from a royal Georgian house.
That little girl on Beria’s lap looks absolutely terrified and rightly so!
I think that's Stalins daughter
@@kiuremneitor5425 yes it is, that's what makes it more chilly. I saw the house Beria lived in, he had buried young woman in the backyard! No wonder he was shot.
It is my understanding that even Stalin didn't trust Beria with his own daughter.
That's because Stalin knew the truth about Beria, particularly him being a reputed sex offender of children to grown women. It's rumored that Baria would sometimes rape several a night. This gave rise a popular urban legend about a black car that drives around snatching up children/women who are never seen again >>"Black Volga" Myth
Stalins daughter later said in an interview that Stalin warned her to never be alone with Beria.
Absolutely true, Stalin always made sure his daughter was never left at home alone with Brian. He knew what kind of sick perverted piece of human excrement he was. 1
@Elizabeth Blake
RE: "It is my understanding that even Stalin didn't trust Beria with his own daughter."
One would think that even a psychopath such as Beria wouldn't even think about touching the daughter of Stalin. In fact, I am somewhat surprised that, if Stalin even suspected that Beria might have been a danger to his daughter, he didn't have him "purged." After all, Stalin had killed many other people for a lot less tenable reasons.
.......if stalin tolerated the presence of such evil because of the usefulness, makes stalin even worse.
The historical account describes Beria being absolutely glowing with excitement when it was clear that Stalin had finally died; clearly expecting that he, Beria would take over as #1. It's not hard to imagine how horrified everyone else must have been at the prospect of Beria having the ultimate power.
When evil men stare at their impending deaths, they usually cave in owing to the weight of guilt that assaults them along with the prospect of walking into a very dark and demon-filled eternity loaded with torment and despair.
Some sloppy research on this video. The purge of the Red Army where 3 of 5 Marshalls were executed, 14 of 16 army commanders, and, 30,000 other officers executed or sent to the Gulag was not in 1941, it was in 1937 during the Great Terror, and was done by Yezhov, not Beria.
Love how the general roughed him up first before they shot him as he had been waiting 3 decades for that moment
Real fact: in a remodelation of a old house of Beria in Russia, they found a lot of bones, it happens not too much time ago
Were they Human bones? Did they find the secret tunnels and graves? lol
@@Matt-Durham yes, they found them in the 90s and are believed to be the remains of beria r@pe victims
@@Matt-Durham ..it is true, he killed girls and buried them. Delia Morris
The old cemetery at the monastery, from there the bones, if they had been with Beria, how much would have been screaming, and so very old bones, a proven fact.
The Untold Past: Beria came from humble beginnings.
Beria's landowning father: Am I a joke to you?
Feel no pity for a disgusting man with blood on his hands .
What do you know about him? What did the video show? Stupid and funny.
His suffering wasn't long enough. He was sentenced and dragged off to be shot fairly quickly. Beria spent many years to have people brutally tortured and later executed. It was drawn out. It was also an industry.
The headline should better read: The Execution of BRUTAL Lavrentiy Beria
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” - Lavrentiy Beria
It's somewhat ironic that somebody so ruthless would be so naive to think that begging and crying would spare him from the very people who witnessed his ruthlessness. His best course of action would have been to accept his fate and take it like a man. How pathetic!
I wish government career bureaucrats could be handled with the touch of Beria
He got some of his own medicine
Robert: It seems he didn't like it. Perhaps it was a little sour, no sugar
He got tooooooo little of his own medicine, a prolonged medieval torture approach would have been much better....
If you want to get a laugh out of Beria's death, watch "The Death Of Stalin" starring Michael Palin. It may not be historically accurate, but it's kinda funny.
Just half way through this, and Oh MAN, his execution can't be brutal enough, outside of nice long hanging, drawing and quartering.
And an alsatian munching his goolies??? How crude can you get, Xaviotes?
Always cheered his death, glad he got a taste of the true fear that he served up from his kitchen so many times. But then I have to pause- violence begets violence, and although both his and stalins demise ushered in SOME sense of stability, no one seemed willing to do away with the old way of doing things and say "no more". And thus, Beria's ghost- although an unmentionable name- almost carries on with business as usual.
Beria was the essence of utter malevolence, yet when it came for his time of reckoning he wept and pleaded for his life. He was truly a monster in human form.
A better title would be "Justifiably Brutal Execution..."
Please never stop they are so interesting
This channel is going to blow up!
Great content 💙✌🏼
Has anyone noticed the pic of the Vlasov's ROA put forth as the NKVD?
No mention of how important zhukovs support was in overcoming berias power.
Wow! Lots of things I’ve never heard before in this one! Thank you!
Hello beautiful!
@@armyvet8279 its a guy re
Amber, stop denigrating yourself by 'wow-ing'!
The picture at 3:26 is nothing to do with Beria. It's a picture of the notorious Kaminski brigade, Russian axis collaborators, during the Warsaw uprising.
@Ben Podziewski
Yeah, I saw that too but I didn't know who they were, just that they looked to be wearing Waffen SS uniforms....
Thank you for your clarification. It’s worth more than you can imagine.
Beria's predecessor Yezhov had a bigger hand in the purges known as the Great Terror. Yezhov directed them as head of the NKVD.
As to Beria whining and crying as he was led to his death, I've read contradictory things about his disposition at the time of his execution from esteemed sources such as Simon Sebag Montifiore and Robert Conquest. The former says Beria pleaded for his life and ultimately had to have, I believe, a towel shoved in his mouth to shut him up. While the later claims that Beria went quietly and stoically to.his death. Who knows?
Considering how Yezhov died, I’m inclined to the former. Both had similar personalities from my readings
The crazy thing about all this. Is that these power struggles are still going on in every country. And the people in charge are no less brutal than these you are currently talking about.
Stalin once told his daughter to never be in a room alone with Beria...
I would not describe a single shot to the head as brutal especially if we compare the brutality of their actions towards others, I say he got off lucky!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the men in the image at 3:28 members of the Russian division that served under Germany?
No sympathy for Beria. Period.
That photo of beria with the girl is probably one of the more horrific things I've ever seen. You can just see the horrors she has or is going to have inflicted on her.
That's Svetlana, Stalin's daughter, she later moved to the US
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alliluyeva
@@tomaszmagierowski2166 so definitely the former on the subject of horrors listed.
it is not "the Gulags".
The entire camp system in its entirety was called Gulag, which is an acronym that simply means "central administration of camps".
A funny historical fact: just seconds before the execution, Beria cried hysterically and begged for mercy, and then heavily shat his pants. Feces bursted loudly with a wet fart, loathsome stench spreaded around... In the next second, General Batitsky ended the coward's life with a headshot.
History repeats itself,Vlad.
The girl sitting on Beria's lap at 2:45 was Stalin's daughter. She lived until 2011.
Svetlana. Her daughter (Stalin's granddaughter) is Chrese Evans and she currently lives in Portland.
Levrenty Beria is what happens when someone fears neither God nor man and let’s their deepest, most depraved desires be fulfilled
Levrenty Beria is human nature unbridled
He feared nobody..............
Till he got the bullet
The movie The Death Of Stalin covered this beautifully
There is a lot of truth in the old saying: "He who lives by the sword also dies by the sword".
Nikita was no better , he had blood on his hands! These people were just evil
It’s so creepy seeing that little girl on his lap knowing what he did…
At 3:26, why is there a picture of Germans?
He used that so we would understand the creep was stalins version of himmler
Looked like some were Vlasov’s ROA troops.
@@84sp84 yep. Cossaks and ROA (one in a german black Tank uniform with ROA shoulder patch) and one looks like a German officier
"Hit the button Georgie.. Georgie press the damn button! .. God damn it"
I recommend the Russian film "Khrustaliov, my car!" from 1998. A masterpiece, although almost completely unknown outside Russia.
The Romans always said "to die well..,is good." Beria died very badly.
More merciful end than he deserved, in my view.
These German’s were crazy. Now we have crazy Putin.
I agree with Motta Man, that justified is that word, not brutal, to describe Beria’s execution, it was not a brutal execution, it was an execution… no previous torture, no previous physical suffering prior to death, just a one shot execution and that was it .
Nicolai Yezhov was more brave during the final moments of his execution.
Beria was not born evil, one thing led to another, then another thing led to another thing... Then beria became evil. But i find that beria was more capable than himmler.
Capable of what?
"The downfall of tyrants comes not only from the efforts of justice, but as result from the very nature of living a twisted, amoral way of life."
He understood death, but not mortality.
He understood governance, but not order.
He understood power, but not accountability.
He understood cowardice, but not vigilance.
He understood treachery, but not community.
Beria's last words: "Please. Please no. Don't shoot me. I'm just a body double!"
Typical j words
Were you standing nearby and heard for yourself?
Zhukov said his contribution in beria s death was the best thing he did in his life
As Robespierre met the blade, so too was Beria made to taste the bullet.
As bad as Stalin and the rest of the Soviet dictators were, I honestly think Beria would've been the worst of them. We're lucky Khrushchev deposed him--the world would've been unquestionably worse with him as general secretary.
highly recommend The Death of Stalin film which deals with this time in a humerous yet visceral manner.
This channel is gold.
After all of the communist history, we have young people who STILL believe communism is the way to go!!! Mindblowing.
Great videos. My only suggestion would be to invest in a higher quality mic - something with a little more bass.
This is why I'm glad there's a place called Hell. Beria is there occupying the worst aspects of it. It's comforting knowing he's being eternally tortured.
This guy makes Mao look like a kindergartner.
Not brutal enough, it seems.
Exactly!!! 👍
The world is ruled by psychopaths, even today.
That picture of a girl in his lap is horrifying
That girl was Svetlana, Stalin's daughter.
My view..with this man..nothing is too brutal. He ranks up the there in the top 50 most evil people in human history
The picture at 2:41 is Molotov not Beria
Sociapathical is a little weak a word for this man ? Well word's fail me to describe this monster in human form , maybe someone more able than me can can articulate what he was? Great upload these people need to be remembered
He was a monster.
Warms my heart knowing how he died.
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