Historical processes, as a rule, are measured and slowly, often - out of inertia, typed for many years. But there are times when whole nations are at a crossroads, and the actions of the very few people depend, much more will move millions of.
Ctoyali the last days of February 1953. Died CPSU General Secretary, leader and teacher, Joseph Stalin. He did not die immediately. The head of the country then came to himself, then again fell into a heavy slumber.
At some point around the Soviet leaders came of lower rank. As recalled Nikita Khrushchev, the government supervisor of the MGB and MVD Lawrence P. Beria, until the leader of all time was in a daze, cursing his last words. But Stalin was worth a moment to recover, as Lavro readily hypocritically faithful dog rushed to him and kissed his hands.
And when Stalin died, Beria for a time became the de facto number one man in the vast expanses of the USSR. This situation lasted for three ... Already at the memorial meeting March 9 Beria broadcast from the rostrum of the Mausoleum, ... So for the first time in the history of the Bolshevik verbal gymnastics ...
Before Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, an old friend of Baku, Beria opened almost completely. Mikoyan wrote in his memoirs, ... We have a lot of arrested. They should be free, and in vain not to send people to the camps, the Interior Ministry should be reduced. ... ...
DANGEROUS REFORM.
Beria's de-Stalinization was unprecedented. If in April and early May have been mentioned Stalin's name in the ... Ceased publication of Stalin's works. The last of the printing press had to leave the 13th volume of his complete works. A set of 14th and 15th volumes were broken up.
A May 9, 1953 Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee adopted a resolution ... From the Soviet reality is not only clear out the cult of Stalin, but the idea leaderism. At the initiative of Beria 's torture chambers ... However, along with political and released a lot of criminals that has destabilized the country.
Self-styled reformer and took over the decision of the national question. June 12 adopted a resolution on the allocation of the national republics of the local personnel office work and the transition into the national language. In addition, Beria suggested to enter their orders for the Soviet republics, and, according to his son, Sergo, quite seriously discussed with Marshal Zhukov possibility of organizing a national army in the field, even at the beginning and operetta.
The last straw that broke the patience to associates, was that Lawrence P. said that there is nothing to deal with the building of socialism in Germany, which is sufficient to West and East Germany united as a peaceful bourgeois state. Under his pressure was adopted so-called ...
EASY Gaby.
The generator of the idea of neutralizing the powerful Lavro by Comrade Khrushchev at that time - one of the secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee and first secretary of the Moscow Regional Party. He spoke rather cautiously with other responsible comrades. Retrieved on his former position of Stalin 's Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov, readily agreed with Nikita Sergeyevich, ... Khrushchev in his endeavor also supported by Voroshilov, Kaganovich, Malenkov, and probably most importantly - a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, former Defense Minister Nikolai A. Bulganin, as he gently talked with a number of marshals and generals, however, knowing in advance that .
Lawrence P. At the same time developed a storm of activity, preparing to attack the party organizations. He fabricated a document on the situation in the leadership of Ukraine, preparing to strike the first blow was the Ukrainian party organization. The chief of the MGB and MVD in Molotov and Malenkov serious contenders seen as Khrushchev and does not take into account - he was too much for him and uneducated muzhikovat. But the party in alliance with the army attacked first. Star Beria Beria had set June 26, 1953 - the day when it was assembled an extraordinary meeting of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee.
There is still a lot of ambiguities in the details of the arrest of Beria, like a smoker from a series of agents Mulder and Scully all shrouded haze of the multiple levels of deception. However, the ...
Reliably we can say that at a meeting of colleagues were subjected to sharp criticism Beria. Then entered the hall Georgy Zhukov, accompanied by several generals. The generals were sent to Beria, his pistols, and Marshal Zhukov approached him from behind and ordered: ... After that, Lawrence P. very pale and temporarily speechless.
From the Kremlin, surrounded by a dense protection MGB -MVD, and Beria were taken either in the representative ZISe, wrapped in a carpet that protection did not suspect, or have entered the territory of Kremlin cadets of the school named after the Central Executive Committee and took him under an escort of 30 officers in the Communist . At the same regiment of Beria's troops stationed in the barracks Lefort, was blocked by the army. Beria was taken first to the garrison guardhouse, and then - to the headquarters of the Moscow Military District, where he was given a separate room area of 12 square meters.