Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria 29 March OS 17 March 1899 23 December 1953 was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator chief of the Soviet security and chief of the Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs NKVD under Joseph Stalin during World War II and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941 He later officially joined the Politburo in 1946 Description above from the Wikipedia article Lavrentiy Beria licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia