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Lavrentiy Beria

1899 - 1953

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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, IPA: [lɐˈvrʲenʲtʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ‿ˈbʲerʲɪjə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, romanized: Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria; 29 March [O.S. 17 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 People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War. Beria was also a prolific sexual predator, who serially raped scores of girls and young women, and murdered some of his victims. An ethnic Georgian, Beria enlisted in the Cheka in 1920, and quickly rose through its ranks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lavrentiy Beria has received more than 9,275,427 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Lavrentiy Beria is the 459th most popular politician (up from 525th in 2019).

Lavrentiy Beria was most famous for his involvement in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program.

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Among politicians, Lavrentiy Beria ranks 459 out of 19,576. Before him are Mustafa III, Shah Jahan, Alaric I, Giuseppe Mazzini, Lothair I, and José Mujica. After him are Mahidevran, Nur ad-Din, Caesarion, Stephen Báthory, Mary of Burgundy, and Atahualpa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Lavrentiy Beria ranks 9. Before him are Alfred Hitchcock, Jorge Luis Borges, Al Capone, Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Hayek, and Frederick IX of Denmark. After him are Yasunari Kawabata, Humphrey Bogart, László Bíró, Fred Astaire, Duke Ellington, and Francis Poulenc. Among people deceased in 1953, Lavrentiy Beria ranks 5. Before him are Joseph Stalin, Sergei Prokofiev, Ibn Saud, and Edwin Hubble. After him are Gerd von Rundstedt, Francis Picabia, Robert Andrews Millikan, Carol II of Romania, Klement Gottwald, Guccio Gucci, and Django Reinhardt.

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