NKVD officers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Chapters: Lavrentiy Beria, Erich Mielke, Nikolai Yezhov, Alexandru Nicolschi, Ivan Maslennikov, Sergei Kruglov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov, Vasili Blokhin, Nikolai Skoblin, Ivan Serov, Pavel Sudoplatov, Dmitri Bystrolyotov, Genrikh Yagoda, Vladimir Dekanozov, Eduard Berzin, Vasily Zarubin, Iosif Grigulevich, Abram Slutsky, Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov, Genrikh Lyushkov, Anatoly Gorsky, Lev Zadov, Alexander Shelepin, Mikhail Frinovsky, Alexander Feklisov, Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov, Matvei Berman, Vasily Korzh, Józef Rózanski, Yakov Agranov, Dmitry Nikolaevich Medvedev, Pavel Fitin, Ivan Sergeychik, Valentin Markin, Sergey Spigelglas, Semyon Semyonov, Iskhak Akhmerov, Mikhail Trilisser, Varvara Yakovleva, Zhumabay Shayakhmetov, Gaik Ovakimian, Kobulov, Grigory Kheifets, Anatoli Yatskov, Ivan Fedorovich Nikishov, Konstantin Volkov, Solomon Mogilevsky, Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov, Idel Jakobson, Ivan Agayants, Boris Rybkin, Pyotr Fedotov, Leonid Kvasnikov, Alexander Saburov, Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov, Lev Vasilevsky, Israel Leplevsky, Grigory Mairanovsky, Karl Pauker, Yevgeny Tuchkov, Sergo Goglidze, Matvei Pogrebinsky, Avenir Bennigsen, Konstantin Rakutin, Aleksandr Langfang. Excerpt: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ; Russian: ; 29 March 1899 ¿ 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Soviet politician and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years (1946-1953). Beria was the longest lived and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after World War II. He simultaneously administered vast sections of the Soviet state and served as de facto Marshal of the Soviet Union in command of the NKVD field units, responsible for anti-partisan operations against anti-Soviet ethnic groups and Nazi collaborators, and the apprehension and summary execution of thousands of "turncoats, deserters, cowards and suspected malingerers". Beria administered the vast expansion of the Gulag slave labor camps, and was primarily responsible for the Katyn massacre. He also played the decisive role in coordinating the Soviet partisans, developing an impressive intelligence and sabotage network behind German lines, thus contributing mightily to the ultimate Soviet victory. He attended the Yalta Conference with Stalin, who introduced him to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as "my Himmler". After the war, he organized the communist takeover of the countries of Central Europe and Eastern Europe, usually through coup d'etat. Beria's uncompromising ruthlessness in his duties and skill at producing results by intimidating his subordinates culminated in his success in overseeing the Soviet atomic bomb project. Stalin gave it absolute priority and the project was completed in under five years, despite the purge of leading physicists in the late 1930s. Forming an alliance with Georgy Malenkov, Beria personally controlled the NKVD; his violent nature made him feared and notorious even among other Politburo members, whose wives, family members and friends were often arrested by Beria's NKVD in reta