Lavrentiy Beria

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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (also spelled Lavrenty Beria) (29 March 1899– 23 December 1953) was the leader of the secret police of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin's regime. In 1953, Nikita Krushchev ordered Beria to be executed as a traitor.