Lavrentiy Beria

Soviet politician and NKVD police chief

Soviet mass murder of ca. 22,000 Poles in several parts of European Russia, including in the Katyn forest, which became a pars pro toto name for the whole massacre

1924 failed insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR

1941 NKVD mass execution of Oryol prisoners

Soviet and Russian actress (1914–2002)

crime

execution of many senior Soviet officers by Stalin