Lavrenty Beria and Stalin. Sokolov B.

For many decades after his arrest and execution in 1953, Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria was recalled only as one of the bloody Stalinist executioners. Only with the beginning of perestroika in the assessment of Beria did some ambiguity arose. It turned out that Beria, after the death of Stalin, was the initiator of the rehabilitation of those who were arrested in the “doctors' case” and for some other high -profile matters that arose in the post -war years. Lavrenty Pavlovich also proposed the unification of Germany, for which he was ready to sacrifice socialism in the GDR, to normalize relations with Yugoslavia, advocated the conclusion of a truce in Korea. He insisted on providing more independence to the Union republics, increasing the role of national personnel and languages ​​in them. Beria achieved the closure of a number of grandiose, but obviously unprofitable and environmentally doubtful construction projects. And he advocated the cancellation of the residence permit and managed to almost half reduced the camp population due to the wide amnesty. And Lavrenty Pavlovich still defended the very revolutionary - the transfer of the Center for power from party bodies to Soviet...

the book of historian B. Sokolov tells about this and much more.