How Politburo toasted order to kill Stalin aide

Chicago Sun-Times | February 25, 1988 | Copyright

MOSCOW (UPI) A Soviet newspaper Wednesday reported that the ruling Politburo in 1953 drank a toast minutes after they voted for the execution of Joseph Stalin's ruthless secret police chief, who panicked and made a feeble attempt to break away.

It was the first time details of the emergency Politburo meeting after Stalin's death in March, 1953, have been printed in the Soviet mass media. The meeting led to the arrest and execution of KGB chief Lavrenty P. Beria.

The story, in the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta newspaper, said Beria, responsible for the deaths of millions in the purges ...

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