Moscow Conference on International Security

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There is these days the 8th Moscow Conference on International Security, MCIS. It is a three day conference with 1000 participants from 111 countries. The fact that defense officials come from 111 countries is a sign of how the US policy of isolating Russia from the world has worked out. Russia is clearly seen as a super power, which most countries like to stay in contact with. One of the organisers is the Russian deputy minister of defense, Alexander Fomin. It is partly due to him that I started this thread as I found a curious anomaly. More on that later, but first something about the conference.

Dep. DM Fomin: Sovereignty now fragile in a world of US interference

Terrorism and wars remain major concerns of world nations, but they've become more wary of threats to sovereignty - something "fragile" when exposed to outside meddling, such as that of the US, Minister Alexander Fomin told RT. The Russian deputy...

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Dep. DM Fomin: Sovereignty now fragile in a world of US interference


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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin
Terrorism and wars remain major concerns of world nations, but they've become more wary of threats to sovereignty - something "fragile" when exposed to outside meddling, such as that of the US, Minister Alexander Fomin told RT.

The Russian deputy defense minister spoke with RTD ahead of the Moscow Conference on International Security, which kicks off on Tuesday. Over 1,000 people from 111 countries are expected to attend the annual event and discuss the most troubling global security issues.

While terrorism and regional conflicts that have been rampant over the past decade remain concerning, Fomin said, increasingly more independent states are wary of interference from major powers - particularly the US - and the prospects of a potential sovereignty loss.Fomin told RTD:

"They realize that concepts like peace, independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty tend to be increasingly fragile today. They need to be protected. The last 20 years have taught them that a state can only be secure if its military is well-equipped and armed with the most advanced air and missile defense systems."

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The most recent example of an external threat to sovereignty is Venezuela, which has faced extensive meddling from the US, ranging from backing the opposition to threats of a direct military invasion, he said.

"The US does not sit idly and is employing other tactics including a broad range of techniques developed for hybrid wars and color revolutions. The Americans have been training leaders and members of extremist groups. They have been ramping up pressure including bribery, bullying, and sectoral sanctions. Operation Blackout is underway, a man-made shutdown of energy facilities... deepening the economic crisis."

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8th Moscow Conference on International Security opens | The Iran Project

MNA The 8th Moscow Conference on International Security officially started on Wednesday at the Radisson ...

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8th Moscow Conference on International Security opens
MNA – The 8th Moscow Conference on International Security officially started on Wednesday at the Radisson Collection Hotel in the Russian capital.
The three-day event opened today with speeches delivered by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Over 1,000 senior defense figures from 111 countries, including Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami, are participating in the event.
The Iranian minister will deliver a speech to security experts at the conference.
This year’s edition will be mainly devoted to the improvement of arms control systems. The security situation in the Middle East, particularly the Syrian crisis settlement, will also prevail on the agenda of the conference.

Moreover, the conference will focus on the expansion of security cooperation in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

US, allies seek to dismantle system of security agreements, Russia's security chief warns

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Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev
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MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. The US and its allies seek to dismantle the system of strategic stability agreements, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said at the Moscow Conference on International Security on Wednesday.
"The policy to dismantle the system of strategic stability agreements, pursued by the US and some of its allies, points to an alarming trend," he said.
US and its 'aggressive' foreign policy
The chief of Russia’s General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, has also slammed the policies of the United States and its allies as aggressive.
"The worst influence on global and regional security is caused by subjective factors stemming from the aggressive policies of the United States and its allies," Gerasimov told the 8th Moscow International Security Conference on Wednesday.

In attempts to retain global domination and control of the world mineral resources and transport links Washington ignores international law and is systematically pushing for the elimination of the collective security mechanism enshrined in the UN Charter, he said. Gerasimov warned that all that was ruining the entire system of strategic stability in the world.

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Serbian defense minister says military-tech cooperation with Russia is at highest level

Aleksandar Vulin noted the importance of the ongoing Moscow International Conference on Security as a venue where small countries may voice their opinion

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Serbian defense minister says military-tech cooperation with Russia is at highest level

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April 24, 16:44UTC+3
Aleksandar Vulin noted the importance of the ongoing Moscow International Conference on Security as a venue where small countries may voice their opinion

Serbian Minister of Defense Aleksandar Vulin
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MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. The military-technical cooperation between Belgrade and Moscow is at the highest level since the time of its launch, Serbian Minister of Defense Aleksandar Vulin said at negotiations with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on the sidelines of the 8th Moscow International Conference on Security.
"I want to thank you for your personal contribution to the development of our military and military-technical cooperation that is at the highest level since the time that we regard as the time of its launch," he said.
The minister reported that the defense ministries of the two states carried out more than 90 joint events, and it is a very high indicator.
Vulin also noted the importance of the Moscow International Conference on Security as a venue where small countries may voice their opinion. "The Moscow forum, today’s forum is a venue where small nations may speak freely about the way they see the world around them," the minister said.

The 8th Moscow Conference on International Security is being held on April 23-25. Its agenda reflects major problems arising in the development of opinions on international security, and positions will be shared on issues of modern military dangers and threats, including the development of the arms control system. The participants are also discussing the situation in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. It involves defense ministers from at least 35 states and more than 1,000 experts from more than 100 countries.

Now, back to the anomaly about the deputy defense minister, Alexander Fomin
When I looked him up on the english wikipedia, there was this image of him:

I then went to the Russian wiki site and found to my surprise, the 'exact' same photo, except he now doesn't have a beard???

The folds of the shirt are identical, the tie likewise, the creases on his uniform. Just as I was proof reading before posting, I discovered that it must be two pictures as he in the lower picture also has three stars instead of two. I am just surprised at how identical everything else which made me think of photoshop.

 

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[youlik]

Давайте я внесу некоторую ясность и покажу, что в данном случае нет ничего удивительного ровным счетом.
Традиция использования портретов разного рода руководителей в общественной жизни еще со времен СССР очень крепкая. С тех самых пор мало что изменилось. Сейчас зайдите в любой чиновничий кабинет и за спиной его обладателя вы увидите портрет Путина, ну или в крайнем случае Медведева. С самого моего детства я наизусть знал всех членов Политбюро Центрального Комитета Коммунистической Партии Советского Союза, как высшего органа управления страной. Их портреты были везде и все они всегда были отретушированы. Заметьте, что фотошопа тогда не существовало. Теперь же при наличии такого удобного инструмента, да еще, учитывая что замминистра обороны, генерал-полковник фигура не маленькая, чего же удивляться тому что используя этот инструмент дорисовали звезды на погоны и "побрили" персонажа, если он сам так распорядился.
Так что, ребята, в данном случае никакой конспирологии, это нормальная практика.
Пользуясь случаем, хочу рассказать вам историю из моего детства, которая как раз связана с портретами вождей и явилась для меня определенного рода шоком.
Дело было в 1975 или 1976 году, соответственно мне было 7 или 8 лет. Происходило это на даче под Москвой. Дачей у нас называют загородный дом с участком земли. Наша дача принадлежала моему дедушке, который получил этот участок в 1939 году. Однажды мы с моим братом возились на задней веранде дачного дома, которую в то время практически не использовали и там скопилось много старых вещей. Среди прочего мы наткнулись на целую стопку журналов "Огонек" послевоенных годов. Я стал листать эти старые журналы и в одном из них я увидел фотографию, которая поставила меня в тупик. В данном материале освещалось проведение праздничной демонстрации, приуроченной к какому-то государственному празднику. По традиции, во время прохождения демонстрации по Красной площади, с трибуны мавзолея Ленина демонстрантов приветствовало руководство страны. И хотя фотография относилась к 1947 или 1948 году, а дело было, я напомню, в 1975-76 году, в самом наличии этой фотографии для меня ничего удивительного не было, традиция сохранялась. Удивительным и непонятным для меня оказалось содержание этой фотографии. Во весь разворот журнала на ней была изображена трибуна мавзолея со всем руководством СССР того времени и под фотографией была подпись, где были по фамилиям перечислены все кто там был. И вот среди прочих персонажей, которых я знал всех до единого, я увидел не знакомое мне лицо. Этот персонаж стоял неподалеку от Сталина, я сейчас точно не помню непосредственно ли рядом с ним или через одного-двух человек. В любом случае его местонахождение там не могло быть случайным. Под фотографией я прочитал, что это некий Л.П. Берия. Эту фамилию я тогда встретил первый раз. Вот это все оказалось для меня первым удивлением. Я считал, что знаю всех, а это оказалось не так. Какой-то человек являлся одним из высших руководителей страны, об этом говорило его место на трибуне мавзолея, а я его ни разу до этого не видел и фамилию не слышал. Естественно, желая разрешить эту загадку, я взял журнал и пошел с ним к дедушке. На мой вопрос- кто это ?- дед ответил словосочетанием, которое я тогда тоже услышал в первый раз. Он сказал: враг народа, что кроме грозного звучания никакой ясности не вносило. Причем ответил он и посмотрел на меня так, что начисто пропало всякое желание задавать дальнейшие вопросы. Журнал, кстати, дед забрал и сжег в печке, а заодно и всю остальную кипу журналов. Вот так я учился учиться не только по школьным учебникам.
Прошу прощения за «много букв». Ниже приведу фото похожее на то самое.


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Let me bring the clear and show that in this case there is nothing surprising at all.
The tradition of using portraits of various kinds of leaders in public life since the Soviet times is very strong. Little has changed since then. Now go to any official office and behind its owner you will see a portrait of Putin, or at least Medvedev. From my childhood I knew by heart all the members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as the highest governing body of the country. Their portraits were everywhere and they were always retouched. Note that photoshop did not exist then. Now, in the presence of such a convenient tool, and even given that the Deputy Minister of defense, Colonel-General figure is not small, and is not surprising that using this tool repaint the stars on the shoulder straps and "shaved" personage, if he so ordered.
So, guys, in this case, no conspiracy theories, this is normal practice.
Taking this opportunity, I want to tell you a story from my childhood, which is just connected with the portraits of the leaders and was for me a certain kind of shock.
It was in 1975 or 1976, respectively, I was 7 or 8 years old. It happened in the country near Moscow. We call the cottage a country house with a plot of land. Our cottage belonged to my grandfather, who received this land in 1939. One day my brother and I were messing around on the back porch of the country house, which at that time almost did not use and there accumulated a lot of old things. Among other things, we came across a whole pile of magazines "the Spark" of the post-war years. I started flipping through these old magazines and in one of them I saw a picture that put me in a dead end. This article covered a festive demonstration dedicated to a public holiday. Traditionally, during the demonstration on red square, from the rostrum of Lenin's mausoleum demonstrators were welcomed by the country's leadership. And although the photo belonged to 1947 or 1948, and it was, I recall, in 1975-76, in the presence of this photo for me was not surprising, the tradition was preserved. Amazing and incomprehensible to me was the content of this photo. Entire spread log on it was a picture of mausoleum with all the leaders of the USSR at that time and under the photo was the caption, where was listed by the names of all who were there. And among other characters that I knew every single one, I saw the face that was no familiar to me. This character was standing not far from Stalin, I now do not remember exactly whether directly next to him or through one or two people. In any case, its location couldn't be accidental. Under the photo I read that it was a certain L. P. Beria. It was the first time I met that name. This was my first surprise. I thought I knew everyone, and I didn't. Some person was one of the highest leaders of the country, his place on the mausoleum's tribune spoke about it, and I had never seen him before and had not heard his name. Naturally, wanting to solve this riddle, I took the magazine and went with him to my grandfather. My question is, who is it ?- the grandfather answered with a phrase which I then too heard for the first time. He said: the enemy of the people, that except the terrible sound no clarity is not made. And he replied and looked at me so that I completely lost any desire to ask further questions. The magazine, by the way, my grandfather took and burned in the oven, and along with the rest of the pile of magazines. That's how I learned to learn not only from school textbooks.
I'm sorry about the "many letters." Below is a photo similar to the same.

 

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Amazing and incomprehensible to me was the content of this photo. Entire spread log on it was a picture of mausoleum with all the leaders of the USSR at that time and under the photo was the caption, where was listed by the names of all who were there. And among other characters that I knew every single one, I saw the face that was no familiar to me. This character was standing not far from Stalin, I now do not remember exactly whether directly next to him or through one or two people. In any case, its location couldn't be accidental. Under the photo I read that it was a certain L.P. Beria. It was the first time I met that name. This was my first surprise. I thought I knew everyone, and I didn't. Some person was one of the highest leaders of the country, his place on the mausoleum's tribune spoke about it, and I had never seen him before and had not heard his name. Naturally, wanting to solve this riddle, I took the magazine and went with him to my grandfather. My question is, who is it ?- the grandfather answered with a phrase which I then too heard for the first time. He said: the enemy of the people, that except the terrible sound no clarity is not made. And he replied and looked at me so that I completely lost any desire to ask further questions. The magazine, by the way, my grandfather took and burned in the oven, and along with the rest of the pile of magazines. That's how I learned to learn not only from school textbooks.

I can understand, Youlik - why your Grandfather took and burned the magazine in the oven! Beria was a psychopathic sadistic animal.

Ironically, L.P. Beria also fits in with "one of the main reasons" for the Moscow Conference on International Security and the system of strategic stability agreements ... see below:

Shortly after the atomic bombings of Japan by the US in 1945, Stalin ordered Beria, to have
the A-bomb built within five years. A special department was set up at the NKVD, called
“Department S” (also known as Bureau #2) to consolidate the research efforts and organize
documents gathered about the U.S. A-bomb project through intelligence channels in a
successful Soviet espionage campaign . His most important contribution was to provide the
necessary workforce for this project, which was extremely labour-intensive. At least 330,000
people, including 10,000 technicians, were involved. The Gulag system provided tens of
thousands of people for work in uranium mines and for the construction and operation of
uranium processing plants and test facilities. As a result, the bomb was ready within four
years.

[L.P. Beria, bust portrait, facing slightly right]

http://www.gentilenation.com/upload...posing_the_jewish_criminal_lavrenty_beria.pdf

Exposing the jewish Criminal Lavrenty Beria -By Teloc Vovim Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a jewish fiend and mass murderer born on March 29th, 1899. Beria was a Bolshevik politician, a state security administrator, chief of the Jewish NKVD between 1939-45 under Stalin (jew) during the great purges, and Deputy Premier from 1946–53. His last name "Beria" is a derivative of the Jewish "Bar" no different from "Barry," Berry," they are all Jewish names. Beria was known to speak yiddish, and is noted for talking yiddish with Stalin’s children. Lavrentiy Beria was responsible for many imprisonments, deportations, mass killings, personally torturing people, and multiple accounts of rape and sexual assault.

In 1922, Beria was deputy head of the Georgian branch of the Cheka's successor, the OGPU. The word "Cheka" is a Yiddish expression for animal slaughter. The Checka, OGPU, GPU, NKVD, KGB are all jewish security forces, whose soul purpose is to follow the wretched orders of the jews in charge. In the 1920s and early 1930s Beria quickly climbed his way up through the ranks of the Cheka and its successors: the GPU, the OGPU and later the NKVD. He ruthlessly blackmailed officials in order to gain political backing and promotions. He would often set up his superiors with married women and then exposed the affairs, ruining them and then taking their posts when they resigned in disgrace. He was seen as vicious in his means to gain power and climb the ranks, but it would also seem that wherever he went, people died or were reported missing.

When Stalin's purge of the Communist Party and government began in 1934 after the assassination of Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov ( December 1, 1934), Beria ran the purges in Transcaucasia, and used it as an opportunity to settle many old scores. Beria would
murder as many old Bolsheviks as he could, thus eliminating as many of Stalin's old political rivals as possible and going so far as to order the mass executions of several thousand political prisoners he had already sent to detention camps. He supervised a purge of the
secret service bureaucracy itself and administered the vast network of labour camps or Gulags set up throughout the country. Under Beria, over 500 NKVD agents and 30,000 Red Army officers were executed. In addition, the NKVD was responsible for the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of ordinary Soviet citizens which were convicted of high treason by false, and absurd accusations.

In June 1937 Beria said in a speech, "Let our enemies know that anyone who attempts to raise a hand against the will of our people (the jews), against the will of the party of Lenin (jew) and Stalin (jew), will be mercilessly crushed and destroyed ”…. And under Beria’s orders a massive terror ensued. Beria, himself greatly enjoyed beating, torturing, raping and killing many victims. In September, Beria was appointed head of the Main Administration of State Security (GUGB) of the NKVD, and in November he succeeded Yezhov (jew) as NKVD head (Yezhov was executed in 1940). The NKVD was purged next, with half its personnel replaced by Beria loyalists. Beria was a “do what I say, or I’ll kill you and your family,” type of person...Excuse me, type of jew.

In 1938 Joseph Stalin told Nikolai Yezhov that he needed some help in running the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) and asked him to choose someone. Simon Sebag Montefiore commented: "Stalin may have wanted a Caucasian, perhaps convinced that the cut-throat traditions of the mountains - blood feuds, vendettas and secret murders - suited the position. Beria was a natural, the only First Secretary who personally tortured his victims. The blackjack - the zhgtrti - and the truncheon - the dubenka - were his favourite toys (there both baton like weapons).

In March 1939, Beria became a candidate member of the Communist Party's Politburo (Many of the members were jewish). Although he did not become a full member until 1946, he was already one of the senior leaders of the Soviet state. Beria is noted for being very easy on and even benevolent towards the Jews. Even though some sources try and state that some of the Soviet Union and Stalin were anti semitic, this is not true. Stalin was jewish, and many of the Soviet Union leaders were jews and others under the control of jews.

The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre took place in 1940, and was aseries of mass executions of Polish nationals and military officers, but there were also intelligentsia, doctors, priests and others carried out by the Soviet secret jewish police NKVD. Based on Lavrenty Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. With Stalin's approval, Beria's NKVD executed a total of over 22,000 people, but the most commonly cited estimate was 21,768. Having retaken the Katyn
area almost immediately after the Red Army had recaptured Smolensk, around September– October 1943, NKVD forces began a cover-up operation. Witnesses were "interviewed", and threatened with arrest for collaborating with the Nazis if their testimonies disagreed with the official line. As none of the documents found on the dead had dates later than April 1940, the Soviet secret police planted false evidence to place the apparent time of the massacre in the summer of 1941, when the German military had controlled the area. A
preliminary report was issued by NKVD operatives Vsevolod Merkulov and Sergei Kruglov, dated 10–11 January 1944, concluding that the Polish officers were shot by German soldiers (jewish lie).

From October 1940 to February 1942, the NKVD under Beria carried out a new purge of the Red Army and related industries. In February 1941, Beria became Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. (many of the commissars were jewish) In 1944, as the Germans were driven from Soviet soil, Beria was in charge of dealing with the various ethnic minorities accused of collaboration with the Nazis, including the Chechens, the Ingush, the Crimean Tatars and the Volga Germans. All these people were deported to
Soviet Central Asia. Beria had also sent out an order to deport 132,000 people from Leningrad, the NKVD had only time to arrest and deport 11,000 soviet citizens of German origin before the German army units forced a suspension of the deportations.

Beria was made Marshal of the USSR in 1945, although he never participated in any military operations. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and of the executive policy-making body, the Politburo, in March of 1946. Shortly after the atomic bombings of Japan by the US in 1945, Stalin ordered Beria, to have the A-bomb built within five years.....

Later in the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev he recalled: "Beria and I started to see each other frequently at Stalin's. At first I liked him. We had friendly chats and even joked together quite a bit, but gradually his political complexion came clearly into focus. I was shocked by
his sinister, two-faced, scheming hypocrisy. “ If Khrushchev’s description of Beria doesn’t say much, it was rumored that Beria was the only person Joseph Stalin was afraid of… Khrushchev also wrote that Beria had, immediately after Stalin's stroke, gone about
"spewing hatred against [Stalin] and mocking him." When Stalin showed signs of consciousness, Beria dropped to his knees and kissed his hand. When Stalin fell unconscious again, Beria immediately stood and spat. After Stalin's death, Beria was appointed First Deputy Premier and reappointed head of the MVD, which he merged with the MGB. Beria wanted an alliance with Israel to advance the communist cause in the Middle East. Large amounts of Czech arms were sold to Israel on his direct orders. Beria (along with Mikoyan) also worked with Mao Zedong (funded by jews) in the Chinese Civil War. Greatly helping the communist success by letting the Communist Party of China use Soviet-occupied Manchuria as a staging area and arranging huge weapons shipments to the People's
Liberation Army, mainly from the recently captured equipment of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

On 26 June 1953, Beria was arrested and held in an undisclosed location near Moscow. Accounts of Beria's fall vary. Beria and all the other defendants were sentenced to death on December 23, 1953. At Beria's trial in 1953, it became known that he was the subject of a
significant number of rape and sexual assaults. In 2003 his cases files in the Soviet archives were opened. They recorded Beria had committed dozens of sexual assaults during the years he was NKVD chief. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, a biographer of Stalin, concluded the information "reveals a sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive depravity.” There were also many allegations that he had contracted syphilis.

These records contained the official testimony from Colonel R.S. Sarkisov and Colonel V. Nadaraia, two of Beria's most senior NKVD bodyguards. They stated that on warm nights during the war years, Beria was often driven slowly through the streets of Moscow in his
armored Packard limousine. He would point out young women to be detained and escorted to his mansion where wine and a feast awaited them (while many others starved). After dining, Beria would take the women into his soundproofed office and rape them. Beria's bodyguards reported that their orders included handing each victim a flower bouquet as she left Beria's house. The implication being that to accept made it consensual; refusal would mean arrest. But there are reports of Beria calling the bouquet a funeral wreath, as a sick joke, because he in some cases not only would rape the women but kill them. Khrushchev in his published memoirs wrote: "We were given a list of more than 100 names of women. They were dragged to Beria by his people. And he had the same trick for them all:
all who got to his house for the first time, Beria would invite for a dinner and would propose to drink for the health of Stalin. And in wine, he would mix in some sleeping pills.

Some women would submit to Beria's sexual advances in exchange for the promise of freeing their relatives from the Gulag. In one case, Beria picked up Tatiana Okunevskaya - a well-known Soviet actress - under the pretense of bringing her to perform for the Politburo. Instead he took her to his dacha where he offered to free her father and grandmother from NKVD prison if she submitted. He then raped her telling her "scream or not, it doesn't matter." Yet Beria already knew her relatives had been executed months earlier.
Okunevskaya was arrested shortly afterwards and sentenced to solitary confinement in the Gulag, from which she survived.

Prior to and during the war, Beria directed Sarkisov to keep a running list of the names and phone numbers of his sexual encounters. Eventually he ordered Sarkisov to destroy the list because it was a security risk, but the colonel retained a secret handwritten copy. When Beria's fall from power began, Sarkisov passed the list to Viktor Abakumov, the former wartime head of SMERSH. He was now chief of the MGB - the successor to the NKVD - who was already aggressively building a case against Beria. Stalin, who was also seeking to undermine Beria, was thrilled by the detailed records kept by Sarkisov, demanding: "Send me everything this asshole writes down!"
Sarkisov reported that Beria's sexual appetite had led to him contracting syphilis during the war for which he was secretly treated without the knowledge of Stalin or the Politburo (a fact Beria later admitted during his interrogation).

Although the Russian government acknowledged Sarkisov's handwritten list of Beria's victims on January 17, 2003, the victims' names will not be released until 2028. Jews think that delaying the evidence will make people forget the crimes of this jewish beast. When the
jews massacred Palestinians and stole their land, they’re quoted for saying “The old will die, and the young will forget.”

Bodies have been discovered that are contemporary with Beria’s bestial rapes. Evidence suggests that Beria not only abducted and raped women but also murdered them. His villa in Moscow is now the Tunisian Embassy. In the mid 1990s, routine work in the grounds turned up the bone remains of several young girls buried in the gardens. According to Martin Sixsmith, in a BBC documentary, "Beria spent his nights having teenagers abducted from the streets and brought here for him to rape. Those who resisted were strangled and buried in his wife's rose garden.

"At night he would cruise the streets of Moscow seeking out teenage girls," Antonov Ovseyenko has said in an interview. "When he saw one who took his fancy he would have his guards deliver her to his house. Sometimes he would have his henchmen bring five, six or
seven girls to him. He would make them strip, except for their shoes, and then force them into a circle on their hands and knees with their heads together. He would walk around in his dressing gown inspecting them. Then he would pull one out by her leg and haul her off to rape her. He called it “the flower game."

Beria is known to have personally tortured and killed many victims in the purges, particularly women. The graves of many of these people were subsequently discovered in the garden and cellars of his Moscow residence, now the Tunisian Embassy. In 2001 human bones were found concealed behind the kitchen walls when the building was renovated. In the cellars the walls are in places scorched black where, it is said, Beria used a blowtorch to torture confessions out of his victims.

Beria was found guilty of: (Although guilty of so much more) Treason.
Terrorism. Beria's participation in the Purge of the Red Army in 1941 was classified as an act of terrorism.

Counter-revolutionary activity during the Russian Civil War:
When the death sentence was passed, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying, but to no avail. The other six defendants were executed by firing squad on the same day the trial ended. Beria was executed separately. He
was shot through the forehead by General Pavel Batitsky who had to stuff a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling (his final moments bore great similarity to those of his own predecessor, NKVD Chief Nikolai Yezhov (jew), who begged for his life before his execution in 1940).

Information about Beria Deleted from Wikipedia:
Like Stalin, Beria was a Mingrelian from Georgia. He was born into a Jewish family, in Merkheuli, near Sukhumi in the Abkhazian region of Georgia. He was educated at a technical school in Sukhumi, and is recorded as having joined the Bolshevik Party in March 1917 while
an engineering student in Baku. (Some sources say that the Baku Party records are forgeries and that Beria actually joined the Party in 1919. It is also alleged that Beria joined and then deserted from the Red Army at this time, but this has not been established.) In 1999 the Russian historian Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko published Beria, the first fully researched biography of Beria. This book confirmed what had long been claimed by anti-Soviet writers, and alluded to in Khrushchev's autobiography, but not generally believed: that in addition to his leading role in repression by the Soviet state, Beria was also a sadist and a sexual predator.

[Reference: Commissar: The Life and Death of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria by Thaddeus Wittlin © 1972].

 

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Дорогой, angelburst29, вы пишете что можете понять моего деда, однако я вынужден усложнить вам понимание. Ниже, под спойлер, я спрячу некоторый, поверхностный анализ приведенной вами статьи. Сразу приношу извинения за то, что написано без ссылок. Писал по памяти итак три дня. Если бы со списком литературы, то вообще никогда бы не написал.

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Dear, angelburst29, you write that you can understand my grandfather, but I have to complicate your understanding. Below, under the spoiler, I'll hide some, a superficial analysis of the mentioned article. Immediately apologize for what is written without references. Wrote on memory and so three days. If with the list of literature, it would never have been written.

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For me, this theme has long been very personal in many ways because of my grandfather. The fact is that he was a Colonel of the NKVD, serving in these bodies from 1919 to 1953. When I was little, I was proud of my grandfather. Ideological, Orthodox Communist, a combat officer, he had many awards, several wounds, talked a lot about the events in Central Asia, the establishment of Soviet power in the territories, called at that time Turkestan and the struggle against the Basmachi gangs. Later, when in our country began what is known as perestroika, became available a lot of information and gradually began a total denigration of our history, including the activities of all those bodies, starting with the Cheka and then the OGPU, NKVD, MGB-MVD, KGB. I confess, I have a pendulum of perception had swung from glorification to total rejection of their activities. To think that at one time I thought my grandfather was a villain, because the facts that had become known for some time were too nightmarish for me. I will explain that I do not know the concrete facts of "cannibalistic" activity of my grandfather, however the facts speaking in this key about activity of these structures in General and their separate representatives in particular abound. At the same time, it must be said that the study of the events of the October rebellion, which we call the revolution and the subsequent struggle in the form of Civil war and the strengthening of Soviet power led me to the need for balanced assessments of the activities of specific characters. Please understand me correctly, I'm not trying to justify or whitewash anyone, on the contrary, my "balanced" view suggests that if the employees of the bodies or, in a broader view, in terms of that time- "red"- "animals", those with whom they fought no less "animals". From this point of view, the article given by you is quite tendentious and one-sided. I will try to offer a slightly different view on some of the theses of this article, those that are worthy of a broader view, because some of the statements in this article are outright lies, about which I will also try to briefly say.
Firstly I want to speak about it.
"In 1922, Beria was deputy head of the Georgian branch of the Cheka's successor, the OGPU. The word "Cheka" is a Yiddish expression for animal slaughter. The Checka, OGPU, GPU, NKVD, KGB are all jewish security forces, who soul purpose is to follow the written orders of the jewels in charge".
The author somehow turned the abbreviation ЧК into a mysterious word "Cheka". I don't know Yiddish and I can't comment on the meaning of this word in this language. I'm just struck by the free use of names. This begs the question: why does the rest of the abbreviations are not worthy of such attention? Didn't Yiddish have the right words? Author might went through the Hebrew to the complete kit! In fact, the ЧК stands for Extraordinary Commission and the full name of this body is as follows: all-Russian extraordinary Commission to combat counter-revolution and sabotage.
Here I want to make a "lyrical digression" and mention two facts. The first is that the KGB during the Soviet era and employees of the current similar bodies, called the FSB, the FSO still often call themselves chekists. The second is that being a Jew to become a staff member of these bodies is impossible. I do not know exactly when this practice began, but exactly before the 80 years of the 20th century, i.e. this applies to the KGB of the USSR and modern intelligence services.
But back to the article. Further in this article the time gap from 1922 to 1934 and further till 1937 is evident. This is a key omission of the author. I strongly suspect that the omission is made intentionally judging by the General direction of the article. The key, in my opinion, this omission is because it allows us to bypass the main reason for the atrocities that followed and to present the hero of the article as a predator killing for the sake of murder and a terrorist terrorizing for the sake of terror itself, but in fact this is not so. Nevertheless, it was in 1922-1929 that the struggle took place at the top of the Communist party, which ended with the expulsion of Trotsky and the strengthening of Stalin.
I will briefly explain who Trotsky is, what ideas he promoted and why it was objectively very important for the country's leadership to get rid of his influence.
This gentleman was one of the main organizers and leaders of the October revolution. Talented speaker and organizer. He took an active part in the Civil war and at the peak of his career was the people's Commissar of military and naval Affairs, Chairman of the revvoensovet, ie, simply put was the highest military leader of the new Republic. Enjoyed great popularity in the army and therefore had a major impact on many processes. However, apparently this gentleman acted in the interests of large financial and industrial groups. Such conclusions themselves arise from the fact that while in exile Trotsky had a number of meetings with representatives of some of these groups in Europe and America, and most importantly from what ideas promoted this gentleman in terms of prospects for the development of the country. His idea of "great leap forward" was supposed to make a quick industrialization of the country maximizing international loans and the country to introduce a regime of "war communism". The mere fact that he offered to build a policy relying on foreign loans, suggests that some prior arrangement existed otherwise seriously expect it for nobody recognized the state was impossible. The result of such a policy would be a complete financial enslavement of the country by international creditors for a very long time. In other words, in the slogans, this figure called for the fight against world imperialism, and in fact assumed a complete and comprehensive integration of the country into this system. Another indirect proof of Trotsky's ties with Western forces can be considered a break in the diplomatic relations of great Britain with the USSR in 1927. This happened just before the party Congress, which was planned to displace Trotsky from all posts, both in the party and in the state. Some researchers consider this act of the British as a demonstration of what awaits the country as a result of the implementation of these actions and an attempt to force the party elite to change decisions against Trotsky.
The military communism promoted by Trotsky as a domestic policy can be compared in a simple way to the current regime in North Korea, only elevated to a high degree. What we saw in reality, I mean the GULAG, is a nightmare in itself, but it would be just children's toys compared to what Trotsky called for.
By the way about the industrialization of the country. Stalin eventually did what Trotsky planned, but fundamentally different methods, relying as much as possible on their own resources, but at the same time widely attracting foreign experts, and therefore technology.
So what we have about what we know as mass repression. The beginning of this process is in the early 30s, the main purpose of this process was to clear the country from the influence of Trotskyism. Security agencies at that time led by Henry Yagoda, later convicted and shot. After it bodies were headed by Nikolay Yezhov who continued all this activity and finished in the same way - condemnation and execution. Only after Yezhov leadership came Beria. It should be noted that each change of the head was accompanied by personnel cleaning, expressed in arrests, imprisonment, executions. Remember this is useful for psychological evaluation, at least approximate, the hero of our article. He could be anyone, but he wasn't exactly a coward.
Further in article the author stops on the Katyn tragedy. This is certainly a tragedy and an atrocity, but in my view, this event cannot be seen in isolation from the rest of reality. Here it is necessary to remember the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1921. Again, I briefly describe. Poland, which gained independence by decree of the Council of people's Commissars of the RSFSR from 1917, with the active support of France and Britain, under the guise of a civil war decided to realize their aspirations to restore the great Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth within the borders of the 1700s. Poland's actions in Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine were certainly aggressive. As much as 2 years the war continued, which almost ended in complete defeat of Poland and only because of the adventurous actions of the command of the Soviet forces in the person of Tukhachevsky and Egorov, the Reds received a heavy defeat near Warsaw. One of the results of this defeat was the capture of a huge number of red army soldiers. The exact number is unknown, according to various estimates from 65,000 to 180,000 people. The only figure which does not argue, none of the researchers is that in inhuman conditions of the prisoners in the Polish camps killed 18% of the population. Every 6th! It's not an atrocity ? Here it is necessary to consider two more facts. First, less than 20 years have passed since that to execution in Katyn and people remembered it well. Secondly, Stalin was a direct participant in these events. He together with Egorov commanded the South-Western front.
That's what I think is important to mention about Katyn.
For comparison, I will give another known fact concerning that time and the polish soldiers. In 1919, near Krasnoyarsk surrendered to the red army Polish division, numbering 34-35 thousand people, part of the Kolchak army. As a result of the repatriation of the poles were lost dead and missing 3-4 thousand, together with those who decided to stay in the Russian Federation, and there were at least a thousand.
Further in article there is a transfer of certain "facts" with references to a certain Colonel Sarkisov and to Khrushchev's memoirs. There is also exist a noteworthy, alternative view of all this.
About loving and perverse inclinations Beria, modern researchers did not find objective evidence of these facts. However colorful description of the execution, falling on his knees, praying seems to be not realistic. The most realistic course of events seems to me to be quite different, which has no direct evidence, but is confirmed by some indirect circumstances that do not have a logical explanation from the point of view of the official version. The key event here is the murder of Beria immediately upon arrest. And the murder was the purpose of the organizers of this event, and not the arrest. Let me explain why this version seems to me the most realistic.
At the time of Stalin's death under the leadership of Beria were all the secret services, and the MGB, and the interior Ministry, which was a huge force. Practically a state within a state. Pure in arms of course the army was stronger, but from the point of view of control of areas and various institutions and organizations that structure had no equal in the USSR. The head of this structure could one way or another execute any person, regardless of their positions. Those who prepared and carried out the elimination of Beria certainly knew it and were afraid. It was this fear and a clear understanding of the realism of the threat that prevented them from doing otherwise. Who are these organizers? Those who were in power after these events. Khrushchev, Malenkov, Bulganin and possibly Zhukov. The official version of the judgment and execution after trial is a falsification with the purpose to clothe in the legal form of the offense. As I already wrote, direct evidence this there is no, but if allow this, then the latest man on whose evidence can be rely this Khrushchev, and all, or at least, most stories about pathological cruelty, perverted inclinations and etc. this is a classic method of demonizing the opponent. Presenting it as if not quite human in the eyes of the public. Very well-known and often used technique. By the way, we as a state are currently under the influence of this method on the part of the collective "West".
So, what do we have with Lavrenty Pavlovich as a result? Do we have a "beast"? I think so, but this is not a stupid, bloodthirsty, lascivious animal, but a clever, cunning, unscrupulous and cynical "beast".
That reminds me again about my grandfather. One of the most abusive (in a political sense) words he had - Zionists. I wonder why? He probably knew.