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Lavrentiy Beria

Born on March 17, 1899

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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician 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.

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