The BRUTAL Execution Of Stalin's Hitman - Lavrentiy Beria

During the Second World War, there were brutal leaders and generals on all sides of the conflict. One of the most brutal men involved in World War 2 was a man referred to by Joseph Stalin as 'my Himmer,' a man compared to Heinrich Himmler such was his power, influence and horrific treatment of at many times his own people. Lavrentiy Beria was the Chief of the NKVD who organised many of Stalin's purges, resulting in the executions of thousands of the Soviet Red Army, politicians and civilians.
Lavrentiy Beria was a beast of a man, he ruled over the NKVD with ruthless efficiency ordering executions, overseeing the gulags and instilling fear into the population. He was a great ally of Stalin, but was a man not to be crossed. Beria was known for murdering people with his own hands, and organising the deaths of his political rivals. He was also a man who was known for picking up women and murdering them on the streets of Moscow.
However after the death of Stalin, things began to unravel for Beria.
He could have easily been the man who succeeded Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union, however Nikita Khrushchev orchestrated his downfall and his execution. He was arrested accused of treason and a number of other charges, before he was dragged out of the court and shot by an executioner. Lavrentiy Beria was a brutal man, and was 'Stalin's Himmler.'
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[@troystaunton254]

Isn’t it always sweet to hear that someone so evil cried and begged like a coward when justice came.

[@Driimweever]

Indeed it is. I guess it must be impulse or instinct. He couldn’t have actually believed any amount of crying or begging would save him, could he?

[@troystaunton254]

@@Driimweever I think terror is the great equaliser. When you’re desperate to live and you know the end is present. Well some people will find a way to suck a bowling ball through a garden hose if it’ll buy them another 2 seconds.

[@coreygross9794]

In history it seems that those guys always are the biggest cowards when they finally get justice

[@slaterslater5944]

I don't know about that. I'd prefer to keep my humanity as that's what differentiates me from people like him.

[@danhaigh732]

Although he deserved whatever he got we have no way of knowing what happened in his final moments.

[@condorboss3339]

Compared to the misery he inflicted on others, Beria had a merciful death.

[@wildbikerbill6530]

Indeed. Being shot in the head, in a moment it is over.

[@az6877]

@@wildbikerbill6530 well, I am quite sure he is still in agony

[@wildbikerbill6530]

@@az6877 Lavrentiy Beria had an Atheistic worldview, where is simply existence and oblivion. In that scheme he is not in agony, he is simply gone. But in a Theistic world, you are most correct. I'm sure he and Heinrich Himmler have a lot to talk about. But I think you will agree it is not the same as being worked to death, starved to death, beaten to death.

[@az6877]

@@wildbikerbill6530 well, if being atheist would mark the end I would be the first atheist out there…as for being starved to death, he would starve million times to death rather then would go through what he is going through right now.

[@standupstraight9691]

Amen.

[@getgaijoobed6219]

I wouldn’t say Stalin totally trusted Beria. Apparently, there was one time when Stalin knew that Beria was alone with his daughter so he called and told her to get away from Beria immediately.

[@jwenting]

Stalin didn't trust anyone... But he probably trusted Beria more than most others, in part because of their common heritage and long term relationship.

[@dogcat145]

this is true

[@l.h.9747]

@@jwenting he trusted him to do the job but not on a personal level

[@vkrgfan]

Beria was a skillful psychopath, he was driven by revenge, because red army almost executed him when they invaded Georgia. He probably was much worse than Stalin when it comes to ruthlessness, because of his tell tales and lies that sent innocent folks in Gulag or execution anyone who he thought stood in his way. He would be on opening ceremony with some people and later that day those people would be facing an execution sentence. Beria’s brutality is well known because he didn’t really had any clear goal, he was just killing people for fun and destroying the party intelligence network from within.

[@gargleblasta]

@@jwenting And I think Beria helped his paranoia quite a bit.

[@Raykibb1]

The movie “Death of Stalin” tells the story of Beria in incredibly good detail, and the movie is plain dark humor at its finest.

[@syariefdirgantara7670]

Agree

[@chrisbuxton1958]

A great and funny film.

[@bobbarker2726]

the coup happened in june or july and he was tried and executed in december. He wasnt just tried and dragged out although 6 nkvd men were, he was executed a little while later.

[@mr.c.3760]

I actually thought the Zhukov scene was just a Hollywood thing and it actually happened in real life lol wow

[@rishotnongkhlaw6113]

I agree

[@garage3022]

Legitimately one of the most evil people to ever exist

[@vojticvojtic2631]

And yet tankies believe that looking up to such people make them the biggest hope the humanity has in achieving social justice. I guess everyone is equal in a massgrave.

[@lunartears6761]

Stalin even warned his daughter to stay away from him.😳

[@alexandercarder2281]

@WinGate Mose I agree

[@jaybird1229]

He had to be evil 😈 in order to be ' Lucifer on earth 🌎's ' right-hand man !!

[@allangibson2408]

@@lunartears6761 Stalin warned Beria to stay away from his daughter…

[@roberthudson1959]

Stalin's comparison underestimates Beria's evil. Himmler was a paper pusher who was physically sickened when he saw the death camps. Beria loved his work. Supposedly, Marshal Zhukov thought that his participation in Beria's death was his single biggest contribution to the USSR.

[@mechamedegeorge6786]

Chad Zhukov as always

[@Itried20takennames]

Well….I think that although Himmler was revolted by the actual squalor of the camps, he didn’t regret his role or lose any sleep over what he did except to worry if he would be held accountable and punished. Don’t think he was a naive bureaucrat, from what I have seen.

[@Due152]

@@Itried20takennames Correct!

[@mrqwom1049]

lol the "just doing my job" excuse didn't work when the war was over and it doesn't work now!

[@map3384]

Zhukov and Kruschev knew Beria would institute purges worse than ever before. Thankfully they eliminated him.

[@Driimweever]

"He had no defense council, with no right to appeal" unlike his countless victims who no doubt were all allowed to lawyer up and defend themselves fairly.

[@ganderstein3426]

Good point.

[@novemberalpha6023]

Well said

[@MundaneGray]

Counsel, not council.

[@stranraerwal]

: that's nonsense...hardly any of his victims could "lawyer up"...and he got what he deserved in the best Sowjet style.

[@Driimweever]

@@stranraerwal I see some people are unfamiliar with sarcasm.

[@TheRealGnolti]

While it's true that Beria was tried and executed during the course of a struggle for power after Stalin's death, it seems pretty obvious that this was not simply done for political reasons. The man was uniquely dangerous to his fellow humans, and the line of people with sound personal reasons for wanting him disposed of was very long.

[@Itried20takennames]

Yeah, I think he was like Robespierre, where a bunch of people who were generally political rivals could agree “yeah, this guy needs to go.”

[@MrOctober44]

I'm sure nobody trusted him and knew what he was capable of.

[@TheRealGnolti]

I am convinced that Beria had already worked out how each of them would be conveniently eliminated and/or neutralized. Few of these men had anything like a conscience, but at least a few of them knew that if LB ended up running the USSR he would destroy it.

[@rg20322]

Really? Stalin and that government committed so many atrocities and they all should have been tortured and then hanged. This guy was a total psychopath. Disgraceful human beings and that entire government should have been taken out.

[@williamkao5747]

The only person who can control him was Stalin, and with old man dead, they had to get rid of him because he would be out of control, also it’s convenient to blame everything on him so the others can come out clean.

[@motaman8074]

I think justified is the word you were looking for.

[@Bmore.BLIND-GUY]

Justified yes but I am thinking more of ironic

[@apskelett]

I'd use amusing but to each their own. :)

[@chrisgibson4140]

I think he got off lightly

[@jaybird1229]

I'd say it was about time ⏲ and should have happened years before.

[@kleomenis456]

Yes true definitely justice delivered.

[@stoneymcneal2458]

Nothing “brutal” about Beria’s death as his was a far too common method used to end the life of hated rivals. A bullet to the head? That sounds rather merciful.

[@blackgrl71]

I agree

[@GazB85]

Killing someone, even blowing someone's brain's out is still brutal, even if it's a twunt like Beria.

[@stoneymcneal2458]

@@GazB85 Your argument fails to recognize the context in which “brutal” is most often used. Being shot in the head is a violent act, but hardly qualifies as a brutal death. If a person had their teeth knocked out, followed by an ice pick to the eyes, with the coup de grace being a gasoline bath with match combo, then using brutal would be the perfect word to use. Too bad that you cannot understand how to draw a similar conclusion on your own.

[@stoneymcneal2458]

@@brunodesrosiers266 And you have been reported to the moderators at You Tube. Congrats.

[@brunodesrosiers266]

@@stoneymcneal2458 - Good. On one hand you are saying that popping a bullet in someone’s head is merciful but on the other you have the unbelievable nerve to be offended that I tell you to consider that would it be yours you may think differently!? Bleeding hearts are no longer what they used to be.

[@TricksterDa123]

I appreciated the satirical and almost absurdist way this sordid history is handled in the movie, "The Death of Stalin." Amazing how banal and petty evil can be.

[@c3aloha]

Yes we see your list Beria!

[@jorywaisanen7374]

such a great movie

[@paulbrower3297]

Human goodness is to be cultivated, as it is precious and rare. Evil is an easy course of behavior.

[@ConfusedRevolutionary]

"Go back to Georgia dead boy!"

[@abelincon8472]

When u know zhukov who crushed Hitler till Berlin say that his most happiest and satisfying moment was seeing Beria killed, u know how evil he was.

[@michaelsinger4638]

Beria’s fate was one of the few times in history where you go “yeah, he got a suitable punishment.”

[@larryhall2805]

Didn't Gen. Zhukov say that the highpoint of his career was arresting Beria?

[@michaelsinger4638]

Not sure. But it would not surprise me. It had to feel good finally being rid of him.

[@kristandevries4835]

He was a sick psychopath and presumably a coward who had a much too mercifull death for what he did to our world.

[@jaybird1229]

@@larryhall2805 You are correct. He did say arresting Beria was the highlight of his career. Beria was behind a campaign of trying to tarnish Zhukov's career and image.

[@larryhall2805]

@@jaybird1229 Thank you for that affirmation. I can't imagine the type of stress Stalin's underlings were under. Always there's syncophants to pile on.

[@bradleybriscoe2608]

It's about time that this bastard Beria had an episode covering his vicious and utterly ruthless crimes against his own countrymen and enemies alike. Beria was every bit as brutal, calculating and diabolical than Himmler, Heydrich, Einsatzgruppen commanders and Gestapo personel. Great episode by the way!

[@michaelsinger4638]

Even worse since Beria was also a mass rapist as well.

[@chrismc410]

@@michaelsinger4638 think he's bad? Look up Oskar Dirlewanger

[@slickrick2420]

That's a stretch. As bad as Beria was, he was indiscriminate unlike the diabolical Nazis who murdered and even genocided simply based on racial hierarchy. They are not comparable, Nazis were far far worse.

[@slickrick2420]

@@michaelsinger4638 Nazis were known and even encouraged to rape Polish, Jewish and Russian women on a massive scale. We're talking millions. So no, Beria as one man is far less worse than Nazis.

[@axdde6428]

@@michaelsinger4638 children as well

[@JK-br1mu]

If he was really begging for his life at the end, before being shot, that was a great end for such a heartless killer of innocents. A lot of his victims deserved the mercy he wanted.

[@kapsaline]

You should definitely take anything toold abot him with a grain of salt. As it is very likely his house was shot up (killing his guards and him) and trial was held after his death. Also he suported more freedoms for soviet republics (thus taking away some power from Moscow). He also wanted to have better relationships with the west. Communist party wasn't very supportive of those ideas so they blamed him for pretty much everything.

[@JK-br1mu]

@@kapsaline He was a mass-murdering criminal. The issues you mention, if true, are minor by comparison.

[@kapsaline]

@@JK-br1mu Yes he was as were everybody else at higher positions in the communist party at the time. They just shifted all the blame upon him because they needed a scapegoat and his political ideas were too western. And since he was killed before trial he had no chance to defend himself.

[@ankurjayawant1]

Stalin's Himmler??? Beria makes Himmler look like a schoolteacher.

[@drstrangelove4998]

Yes, that’s what I thought, a total monster.

[@abranisdz34]

Both are devils,stop minimizing what himmler did

[@slappy8941]

He had to mention the Nazis in some way just in case somebody brought up the fact that Beria was Jewish.

[@hugobarrett63]

@@slappy8941 He was a Mingrelian-Georgian and raised as an Orthodox Christian. I guess Stalin always kept him near because of his Georgian background. Stalin was also a Georgian.

[@jimmyz2098]

@@abranisdz34 Bingo. Human garbage, on both counts. Evil in the extreme.

[@bryanmg8164]

The excellent movie Death of Stalin documented Beria's end well. Khrushchev comes out of it as quite a heroic figure! He and his allies performed a valuable service to humanity, ridding the world of this evil monster!

[@mikeevans96]

Good movie...lots of dark humor...Steve Buscemi was great as Nikita Khrushchev...

[@Upemm]

Brilliant movie that I don’t tire of watching every so often .

[@bryanmg8164]

@@mikeevans96 Buscemi was wonderful, and a superb supporting cast!

[@sharonrigs7999]

Zhukov was basically portrayed as a Soviet Rambo!

[@romansternberg5696]

Hilarious, and even more so for its underlying truth.

[@josephledux8598]

Beria is one of the reasons I admire Khrushchev. Yes, as a red-blooded American who joined the Army during the Reagan years, I do very much admire Nikita Khrushchev. He was the only sane leader the Soviet Union had since Lenin, and he wasted absolutely no time in shitting on Stalin and Stalinism once he was in power and ridding the world of the odious, despicable Beria. That, in case you didn't already catch on, was the morally correct thing to do. The biggest tragedy of the Cuban crisis of 1962 is that Khrushchev, who achieved his primary aim -- getting the IRBMs out of Turkey, which could have turned Moscow into a smoking ruin in less than five minutes -- but was still seen as having embarassed the USSR, was replaced anyway. This was bad for the USSR and the USA because he was followed by a succession of much less intelligent paranoid lunatics far more likely to miscalculate and cause a nuclear war which of course would have been terrible for the USSR, the USA, and everybody else on the planet. There wasn't another sane, reasonable Soviet premier until Gorbachev. As far as Beria, there aren't words enough to describe what a despicable cowardly poltroon and degenerate he was, a man who could cause the death of thousands before breakfast, and tens of thousands by dinner, all on his own whims and self-serving machinations. If there was ever a pathetic insect who deserved to die like the coward he was, humiliated, crying, on his knees, begging for his life and getting his answer with a slug through the head, it was Beria. The important thing there was to just rid the world of that piece of filth. If they'd burned him alive, or disemboweled him and let him die a slow death while being eaten by crows, none of it would have even remotely sufficed to pay that man for the evils he inflicted. Ultimately it was best to just exterminate him like the insect he was and let the world get on with the business of healing from some of the ills he inflicted on it. Good riddance.

[@brianbrady4496]

Nicely said. I agree on Krushchev.

[@williamhogan4031]

A bit hard on the insect world . Other than that , a good statement....

[@danielforeroc]

Lenin was everything but sane. Stalin was just like him, the only difference is that Stalin succeeded.

[@wearetomorrowspast.5617]

Well said.

[@xne1592]

@@wearetomorrowspast.5617 before everyone gets carried away, what about his actions in the Ukraine during the Great Terror? Not such a Mr Nice guy there...

[@TomFynn]

"How brutal was the execution of Lavrentiy Beria?" "Not enough."

[@antoquinn4464]

I read the autobiography of Zhukov and he said that Beria actually pissed himself knowing that he was going to be killed. He detested Beria like everyone else apparently.

[@bbsaid218]

The film “The Death of Stalin” (2017) was a good film.

[@jaex9617]

Dark comedy.

[@chrisgibson4140]

Bizarrely very near the truth

[@gerryhouska2859]

As was "Red Monarch". 1983.

[@dda40x1]

I've watched it 3 times, the cast is incredible.

[@disgruntledtoons]

The best part of the movie was every scene with Zhukov.

[@jayo3074]

I take some solace in knowing he was crying before be was killed. He knew then what all his victims experienced before he ordered their deaths.

[@rockpadstudios]

Yes - read a newspaper article years ago and it said he got on his knees and begged for his life. It does make one wonder how he felt when all those people he personally killed when they begged for their lives. He killed innocent girls after raping them and in the end begged for his life - very strange that he thought he should get mercy.

[@jackspring7709]

In fact the executioner finally became impatient and shot him in the forehead instead of the back of the head.

[@jackspring7709]

​@@rockpadstudios It must have been a very bitter pill for the little rodent to end up in a way that he thought only he could administer to others.

[@robertsansone1680]

@@jackspring7709 According to Edvard Radzinsky in his book 'Stalin', Berias last words were, "Allow me to say--" & he was interrupted by a bullet thru the forehead.

[@jackspring7709]

@@robertsansone1680 Nice one: thanks for that: nice to know the executioner, despite his grim job, had excellent comic timing :)

[@talkingmudcrab718]

6:15 It wasn't women he was after. It was young girls. This is well known. He was an absolutely evil and irredeemable monster. Even by Soviet standards.

[@eduswiss7771]

This is one of those “well known” things, which doesn’t have prove nor evidence. Beria was chief of NKVD and though accountable for atrocities committed by this department. But the “fact” that Beria was after women is probably made up by Khrushchev’s government, because there is no evidence of this.

[@No-bi3pb]

It's been reported that he raped kids as young as 7

[@derekwordley1837]

Look at the faces of the girls in the photographs carefully, they obviously had heard his reputation.

[@childesimp3725]

so hes a pedo?

[@EirinYagokoro]

You know you're a total monster when even Stalin is afraid of you

[@antoinemozart243]

It was the opposite. Beria knew too well the fate of his predecessors.

[@davidjackson9680]

@@antoinemozart243 eh yezhov deserved that shit dude was killing people and commuting purged even without stalin signing off on them nobody that was the leader of the NVKD was a good person

[@Nick_T_90]

Oh no Stalin wasn’t afraid of Beria he actually hated him but knew he was good at his job so he kept quiet until he found out about his daughter being over there I’m surprised Stalin didn’t kill him personally

[@aviationnine-tailedfox2216]

Is Georgy Zhukhov monster as well? Bcause Stalin is afraid of Zhukhov too.

[@bongcloudopening5404]

​@@aviationnine-tailedfox2216 the reason why stalin was afraid of Zhukov was quite the opposite. Zhukov was popular with both the people and the red army, so Stalin can't just execute Zhukov like what he can do to Beria.

[@joemacinnis1972]

Awe, he begged for his life. I'm sure that the thousands he killed, also begged for their own life.

[@taffwob]

I'm sure a great many begged for an early death as well.

[@dailyyoutuber4563]

thousands? Try millions

[@reggierico]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.....

[@websurfer191]

This is a case where a small ,although monstrous man was given almost unlimited power. He used his authority to commit unspeakable crimes and when his downfall came he showed what a coward he really was.

[@bobkrohn8053]

That’s why, in the United States, we have the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. The final check and balance on government power.

[@MrsPhilosopher]

@@bobkrohn8053 don't worry c19 will fix that for you

[@AYVYN]

"The downfall of tyrants comes not only from the efforts of justice, but as result from the very nature of living a twisted, amoral way of life." He understood death, but not mortality. He understood governance, but not order. He understood power, but not accountability. He understood cowardice, but not vigilance. He understood treachery, but not community.

[@GazB85]

The Tunisian Embassy in Moscow, which was where Beria's office was located, found some of his bondage/torture equipment a few years ago.

[@ntluck1592]

Tunisian embassy actually. But yeah it must have been a nightmare for the workers

[@GazB85]

@@ntluck1592 Thank you for the correction. 👍

[@ntluck1592]

@@GazB85 No problem

[@frisco21]

_"The Tunisian Embassy...found some of his bondage/torture equipment..."_ Ironic, then, that just prior to his execution, Beria panicked and had to be bound and gagged. This is Karma.

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

Also bones of his Female victims.

[@DavidSmith-ss1cg]

There's some rumors that Beria bragged about poisoning Stalin. But Beria died for the same reason Stalin did; he was too dangerous to leave alive. It's said that Stalin was planning a new series of purges to keep his opponents on their toes(or just the love of entropy; Stalin had the feral cleverness of a fearsome predator if not the brains of a statesman) when he died, and his enemies killed him to provide stability after 30 years of Stalin's insanity. If Joe Stalin was the only leader that could've got the USSR through WW2, he was also the one who trusted Hitler in the Summer of 1941 and wouldn't let the Soviet military to fight back at first, allowing many of the USSR's planes to be destroyed on the ground. Much of the early German success was Stalin's fault.

[@hughtierneytierney3585]

I've read that Beria believed that Stalin was planning a purge of Mingrelians, and that Beria, being Mingrelian himself would not tolerate this and so poisoned him.

[@jamesdunn9609]

Prior to the Bolshevik revolution, Stalin was the the money guy for their group. He made the money by committing criminal acts like kidnapping, murders, and robberies. He had a criminal mentality and thought and behaved exactly like a criminal the majority of the time. That was why he was so able to murder millions without batting an eye. He was a true sociopath.

[@historyeditz8326]

@@jamesdunn9609 Ironically he was also trained as priest.

[@anomalocaris7436]

Stalin was always extremely paranoid, he was planning some kind of mass persecution of Jews (Doctor's Plot) before he died

[@trevorsmith7753]

@@historyeditz8326 CEOs & clergymen both feature in the top-10 jobs favoured by psychopaths!

[@lucasglowacki4683]

I heard this mans name for the first time as a child growing up in Poland. When we learned of the Katyń massacre…even thou I was the 1970’s and the government was communist everyone knew.

[@olasek7972]

podobnie, pozdrawiam

[@conceptalfa]

Yes, but at that time everyone thought it was the germans that executed that massacre, wasn't it so????

[@olasek7972]

@@conceptalfa that was the official government propaganda in Poland when I was growing up there. I recall my father told me that when he opened up polish encyclopedia in the early 50-ties under Katyń it was stated that it was a place where Nazis murdered Poles but when he opened up a new edition of the polish encyclopedia like a decade later - Katyń was simply missing, gone.

[@conceptalfa]

@@olasek7972 yepp, that's what I'm saying....

[@lucasglowacki4683]

@@conceptalfa Technically yes but everyone in Poland knew it wasn’t the Germans. I was only 11 when we left Poland in 1984 but like all communist lies, everyone knew the actual truth. Everyone knew that these were Stalin era coverups and the people on the ground knew the actual truth and not what the world was hearing and seeing unfortunately.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

"His father was a landowner." "He came from humble beginnings." Uh. Choose one.

[@floatingtigerscarriff6664]

He is so evil that he made Himmler looked like a joke.

[@heyyo162]

Not really.

[@darthheisenberg5983]

He has a position of himmler but he is simply straight john dwayne gacy.

[@TheLeadSled]

I have studied both world wars for many years, and I have to say you do an excellent job on your videos. Your facts are precise and right on, it's not easy making videos about some of the most vile wicked human beings to have ever walked this earth, bravissimo.

[@reicherosterreicher3486]

Churchill provoced the Second WW why don't you tell a Story about Mr Felton ?? About Churchill and his "Berija" Bomber Harris .About all the lies against pre war Germany ??

[@gerardfrederick5504]

¨Quatsch. Dieses Video ist voller Behauptungen welche keinerlei Grundlage haben.

[@reicherosterreicher3486]

@@gerardfrederick5504 Hauptsache der Berija wurde damals neutralisiert, manchmal passieren auch gute Dinge

[@seannorton]

@@reicherosterreicher3486 what? Churchill was a nonentity that nobody listened to before the war.

[@madkot7]

Are you calling bunch of lies an excellent job? You should stop reading propaganda pamphlets....

[@garrisonnichols807]

Thank you for talking about the Katyn massacre. Very few people know about that. God Bless Poland !

[@rudolfkraffzick642]

No, millions of people know about Katyn, at least in Europe. In Poland everybody knew since the massarce site was found in 1942 and a group of international medical scientists released a report. In Germany I learned about Katyn in Gymasium. Finally Andrej Waida made a movie which was shown in many countries worldwide and also in TV.

[@rudolfkraffzick642]

No, millions of people know about Katyn, at least in Europe. In Poland everybody knew since the massarce site was found in 1942 and a group of international medical scientists released a report. In Germany I learned about Katyn in Gymasium. Finally Andrej Waida made a movie which was shown in many countries worldwide and also in TV.

[@sanchezroman8995]

It was Said that Beria specifically instructed his Russian executioners to use pistols 🔫 of German make and caliber, to blame the crime on the Germans. It was ONLY after the exhumation and autopsy that the pathologists confirmed that this was the case..

[@dalekeys7447]

God bless Poland

[@rossbrown6641]

The Poles are a magnificent and honest people!

[@vkrgfan]

He gave no mercy to his own, he was driven by revenge and power. He had no particular desire to Communism, he pretended to be one to climb the ladder of power. A perfect depiction of psychopath.

[@slatibaadfast]

the executioner walked in, aimed and fired, killing Beria instantly. there was nothing brutal about it. the entire thing would have taken no more than 5 maybe 10 seconds.

[@dovidell]

he who lives by the sword , dies by the sword

[@mrvn000]

Who lives by the gun, dies by the gun.

[@desmondoggo1399]

Please trust me when I tell you Not in my experience. Those that kill often live the longest, but are the most tortured, again. Trust me

[@dovidell]

@@desmondoggo1399 - I don't think Mengele lost much sleep when he " emigrated " to South America

[@murphybrown1366]

@@desmondoggo1399 dude only the good die young……after death it’s heaven or hell for eternity….who wants to live until they 80

[@brawlstarssponsorships]

Matthew 26:52

[@sherlockgnomes8971]

I know KZbin is about clickbait, but you really need to change the titles of these videos. You should have written “ the execution of the BRUTAL Lavrentiy Beria”

[@linapakhomova1638]

Yes.

[@STE.B]

This channel is going to blow up! Great content 💙✌🏼

[@chrisseals6191]

Beria's home in Moscow became an embassy. Recently bones of young women were found buried in his wifes garden by construction staff expanding the building.

[@mercomania]

The picture at 3.31 dhows German, Cossack and POA offices in conversation, not Soviet NKVD officers.

[@emintey]

I noted that. The Cossacks were wearing German uniforms as many of them served with the Wehrmacht.

[@JR_AP]

I was about to say the same

[@bobkrohn8053]

Yup, as bad as the Germans were, tens of thousands of Soviet citizens joined the Germans to defeat the Russians.

[@mikewiltshire9121]

@@bobkrohn8053 which goes to show you how bad Stalin was.

[@elizabethblake1140]

It is my understanding that even Stalin didn't trust Beria with his own daughter.

[@MrSniperdude01]

That's because Stalin knew the truth about Beria, particularly him being a reputed sex offender of children to grown women. It's rumored that Baria would sometimes rape several a night. This gave rise a popular urban legend about a black car that drives around snatching up children/women who are never seen again >>"Black Volga" Myth

[@Davey-Boyd]

Stalins daughter later said in an interview that Stalin warned her to never be alone with Beria.

[@voltsoftruthBSbuster]

Absolutely true, Stalin always made sure his daughter was never left at home alone with Brian. He knew what kind of sick perverted piece of human excrement he was. 1

[@spaceman081447]

@Elizabeth Blake RE: "It is my understanding that even Stalin didn't trust Beria with his own daughter." One would think that even a psychopath such as Beria wouldn't even think about touching the daughter of Stalin. In fact, I am somewhat surprised that, if Stalin even suspected that Beria might have been a danger to his daughter, he didn't have him "purged." After all, Stalin had killed many other people for a lot less tenable reasons.

[@mippim8765]

.......if stalin tolerated the presence of such evil because of the usefulness, makes stalin even worse.

[@Jay121]

I read the comments and I'm amazed at how calling him "pure evil" or the embodiment of evil simply elevates this piss ant to a higher level. People like Beria are everywhere. They are at work, at school, and members of the community you live in. Beria and Himmler still walk amongst us, but they don't have the power to unfold themselves. You just look around and you'll see a Beria or a Himmler or an Eichman.

[@mikeb2377]

The book by M.P. Clark ‘Hierarchies of Greed’ compares Beria and Himmler, looks at Beria’s many crimes and explains the power brokers in Moscow at the time of Stalin’s death. A work of faction, it also offers an interesting and novel scenario as to how and why Beria was overthrown and executed.

[@tomraw4893]

Thanks for the overview, good job. The major purge of the Red Army took place in 1937/38, when Yezhov was NKVD chief. I hadn't heard that Beria strangled Yezhov. Yezhov was shot. Yezhov's arrest and interrogation file has been studied since the release of archive material post Gorbachev. If you have other information I would stand corrected.

[@Nitroat-xo4tj]

Great knowledge! I honor that! Thank you.

[@carcharinus6367]

Yezhow, the perpetrator of the murder of the 1.5 million victims, including over 100,000 Poles - reportedly was squealing pitifully when he was led to a room without windows, with a sewage grate in the middle of the tiled floor.

[@skymaster4743]

@@carcharinus6367 Beria shot Yezhov who had executed his predecessor Yagoda who is said to have poisoned his predecessor Menzhinsky.

[@harrylime8077]

That little girl on Beria’s lap looks absolutely terrified and rightly so!

[@kiuremneitor5425]

I think that's Stalins daughter

[@harrylime8077]

@@kiuremneitor5425 yes it is, that's what makes it more chilly. I saw the house Beria lived in, he had buried young woman in the backyard! No wonder he was shot.

[@PhilJonesIII]

Stalin trusted Beria? Stalin only trusted you when he could see you, and then only some. It says a lot when Stalin did not trust Beria to be alone with his (Stalin's) daughter.

[@nielszindel1151]

He was useful to Stalin and it cannot have come as a surprise to be executed. He was a well known rapist as well as torturer and murderer and the soviet guys hated him and what he had done to their female relatives. Stalin knew and did not deal with it, so the guys got him after Stalin died. Delia Morris

[@PhilJonesIII]

@@nielszindel1151 Agreed, a good example of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.

[@badwolf7367]

Beria was so feared and hated that for a very long time after his death, his name was expunged from all books in the Soviet Union. Even in such books as an encyclopedia, following his execution references of him were removed and the only thing left was reference to the Bering Sea. The NKVD was also totally dismantled and a new state security organization came into being - the KGB.

[@mencken8]

Why keep using inappropriate words like “brutal” for these things? Beria deserved more than he ever could have received.

[@politicalridicule]

t's only good propaganda - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hn7XnKqmm8iCgdE

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed the video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@cornpop3159]

Always thought Beria was more Stalin's 'Bormann'. I mean job wise he was Himmler, but person wise.... dude was a Martin Bormann, dude was so depraved and evil the National Socialist were sickened by him

[@justinwillingale2086]

Love how the general roughed him up first before they shot him as he had been waiting 3 decades for that moment

[@mrsusan5672]

The Untold Past: Beria came from humble beginnings. Beria's landowning father: Am I a joke to you?

[@az6877]

Beri would periodically shiver as if he was being executed and beg not to kill him just to make fun of those who begged him to spare their lives and then burst out in laughing by telling the story of some of his victims. But ended up exactly in that very position and felt exactly what his victims felt right before they were shot in the head.

[@Adrenalize-lf4qf]

Great video! Watched from beginning to end.

[@Richard68434]

Imagine being such an evil person, that Beria was dubbed as a counterpart of you.

[@nikkoex]

Hey, at 3.30 I think, you put a picture with the caption NKVD, but it is a picture of the vlassov' army, russians fighting with the german during WW2 (the Insignia is visible on the arm of the man on the right) and the officer (second from the left) is a german officer)

[@salus1231]

It's always the cowardly little weasels, and Beria was an A lister

[@jobu88]

The historical account describes Beria being absolutely glowing with excitement when it was clear that Stalin had finally died; clearly expecting that he, Beria would take over as #1. It's not hard to imagine how horrified everyone else must have been at the prospect of Beria having the ultimate power.

[@jaewok5G]

"Death of Stalin" is an absurdly hilarious movie of these actual events and I can't recommend it enough.

[@Terry.W]

Feel no pity for a disgusting man with blood on his hands .

[@AmberPearcy]

Wow! Lots of things I’ve never heard before in this one! Thank you!

[@armyvet8279]

Hello beautiful!

[@yiannimil1]

@@armyvet8279 its a guy re

[@rossbrown6641]

Amber, stop denigrating yourself by 'wow-ing'!

[@felixdzerzhinsky9926]

Real fact: in a remodelation of a old house of Beria in Russia, they found a lot of bones, it happens not too much time ago

[@Matt-Durham]

Were they Human bones? Did they find the secret tunnels and graves? lol

[@chenzomutumbo9140]

@@Matt-Durham yes, they found them in the 90s and are believed to be the remains of beria r@pe victims

[@nielszindel1151]

@@Matt-Durham ..it is true, he killed girls and buried them. Delia Morris

[@kokoeteantigha389]

When evil men stare at their impending deaths, they usually cave in owing to the weight of guilt that assaults them along with the prospect of walking into a very dark and demon-filled eternity loaded with torment and despair.

[@unnecessaryapostrophe4047]

It's one of the best moments in The Death of Stalin.

[@leticiagarcia9025]

I never thought that I could give credit to Nikita Khrushchev. I’m glad this evil man met his end scared out of his wits; crying and and begging for mercy. Have the remains of the girls ever been uncovered?

[@mayabrainrott]

if they ever were the details are probably sitting in some classified file somewhere

[@conceptalfa]

Wondering that too, after all, the murdered girls wasn't any state secret, and especially if he among others was executed for that....

[@DerDop]

Khrushchev was a humanist. The best period in communism is linked to him.

[@frank1fm634]

Leticia Garcia yes the remains of many women were discovered on Beria's property.I saw the story but can't remember the source.They were doing excavations on Beria's property when the remains of many women were discovered.I was shocked at how many women Beria killed and buied on his property.I'm pretty sure they said it was "dozens" of women.

[@Carlton-B]

Yes, lots of remains have been recovered, in places around his house. Wikipedia lists some of the discoveries. One of his assistants kept a list of his victims, which contained hundreds of names. It is supposed to be released in 2028.

[@maxelldenomie6131]

Stalin once told his daughter to never be in a room alone with Beria...

[@timstradley5819]

This channel is gold.

[@bartdamesworth5406]

Some sloppy research on this video. The purge of the Red Army where 3 of 5 Marshalls were executed, 14 of 16 army commanders, and, 30,000 other officers executed or sent to the Gulag was not in 1941, it was in 1937 during the Great Terror, and was done by Yezhov, not Beria.

[@sunrise560]

The headline should better read: The Execution of BRUTAL Lavrentiy Beria

[@arontesfay2520]

It's somewhat ironic that somebody so ruthless would be so naive to think that begging and crying would spare him from the very people who witnessed his ruthlessness. His best course of action would have been to accept his fate and take it like a man. How pathetic!

[@NameOfTheChannel]

One of he few times in history where foul man doesn't get away with his crimes. Thank Goodness

[@lindaarrington9397]

Please never stop they are so interesting

[@robertsachs18]

“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” - Lavrentiy Beria

[@arturs2436]

According to Sebastian Sebag Montefiore mentions in his book" Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar"...who killed Yehzov was the future head of KGB Ivan Serov. Surely other historians out there may point to others has the executioners....

[@Warmaker01]

His suffering wasn't long enough. He was sentenced and dragged off to be shot fairly quickly. Beria spent many years to have people brutally tortured and later executed. It was drawn out. It was also an industry.

[@robjones2408]

Beria was the essence of utter malevolence, yet when it came for his time of reckoning he wept and pleaded for his life. He was truly a monster in human form.

[@johnfalstaff2270]

Beria was the only Jew favored by Stalin. Khrushchev however outsmarted Beria. Khrushchev said to Marshall Zhukov that if he (Beria) lives we will die. So, Beria quickly followed Stalin fate.

[@allangibson2408]

Beria wasn’t Jewish. Like Stalin he was Georgian Orthodox. The entire Jewish thing is Nazi propaganda.

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@allangibson2408 Trotsky who was killed in Mexico 1940 is Jewish.

[@allangibson2408]

@@shahrulamar5358 And he was killed for BEING opposed to Stalin’s policies after being expelled from the Communist party in 1929 (for pushing for democratic reforms). Democracy is a Jewish thing… Stalin was almost as antiSemitic as Hitler. Being simply being an observant Jew was enough to get you sent to a gulag. The Russian communist party was never more than 5.21% Jewish - about the same percentage as the general Russian population. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism The Jews were attracted to the communists because one of their policies was an end to the Pogroms against the Jews in Russia…

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@allangibson2408 Founder of Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin also has Jewish blood.

[@vchk5330]

How much of a moron does one have to be to comment this and how did it get 23 likes.

[@destroyerarmor2846]

I wish government career bureaucrats could be handled with the touch of Beria

[@YeahPete]

The crazy thing about all this. Is that these power struggles are still going on in every country. And the people in charge are no less brutal than these you are currently talking about.

[@robertschweppenhauser9891]

He got some of his own medicine

[@carlosramos5256]

Robert: It seems he didn't like it. Perhaps it was a little sour, no sugar

[@conceptalfa]

He got tooooooo little of his own medicine, a prolonged medieval torture approach would have been much better....

[@Bigchew1967]

Has anyone noticed the pic of the Vlasov's ROA put forth as the NKVD?

[@kingjules8744]

A funny historical fact: just seconds before the execution, Beria cried hysterically and begged for mercy, and then heavily shat his pants. Feces bursted loudly with a wet fart, loathsome stench spreaded around... In the next second, General Batitsky ended the coward's life with a headshot.

[@castleanthrax1833]

If you want to get a laugh out of Beria's death, watch "The Death Of Stalin" starring Michael Palin. It may not be historically accurate, but it's kinda funny.

[@howardgoff2420]

Very interesting video, I've actually never heard of this man before. Sound like he got just what he deserved at the end. Too bad so many innocent victims had to die from his brutality. May his victims rest in peace.

[@Useaname]

You never heard of him because the establishment didn't want you to know

[@xaviotesharris891]

Just half way through this, and Oh MAN, his execution can't be brutal enough, outside of nice long hanging, drawing and quartering.

[@rossbrown6641]

And an alsatian munching his goolies??? How crude can you get, Xaviotes?

[@YouTube.Algorithmic.F-ckery]

Great videos. My only suggestion would be to invest in a higher quality mic - something with a little more bass.

[@chadlad7837]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the men in the image at 3:28 members of the Russian division that served under Germany?

[@zach8269]

FYI: At 03:29 those are members of the РОА, a Russian collaboration unit within the German Army in WW2. Not NKVD.

[@bjamesyyy]

Yeah, this caught me off guard when seeing the distinctly German Uniforms and the insignia on the soldier on the right of the picture. Hope he issues a correction for this image.

[@kirbycraft9325]

Also judging by that look on Svetlanas face she hated him. I've always thought this picture revealed more than is told. She seems unusually tense in this picture.

[@sairechrysbelleparcon8950]

"Spit it out, Georgy. Staging a coup here." - Field Marshall Zhukov

[@edwardjohn1614]

A better title would be "Justifiably Brutal Execution..."

[@benpodziewski3861]

The picture at 3:26 is nothing to do with Beria. It's a picture of the notorious Kaminski brigade, Russian axis collaborators, during the Warsaw uprising.

[@charles1964]

@Ben Podziewski Yeah, I saw that too but I didn't know who they were, just that they looked to be wearing Waffen SS uniforms....

[@AYVYN]

Thank you for your clarification. It’s worth more than you can imagine.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

Beria's predecessor Yezhov had a bigger hand in the purges known as the Great Terror. Yezhov directed them as head of the NKVD. As to Beria whining and crying as he was led to his death, I've read contradictory things about his disposition at the time of his execution from esteemed sources such as Simon Sebag Montifiore and Robert Conquest. The former says Beria pleaded for his life and ultimately had to have, I believe, a towel shoved in his mouth to shut him up. While the later claims that Beria went quietly and stoically to.his death. Who knows?

[@davidhoran7116]

Considering how Yezhov died, I’m inclined to the former. Both had similar personalities from my readings

[@KnobCreekBandit]

Oooooffff, I've been waiting for a video like this since I saw Buscemi in 'The Death of Stalin'!!!!

[@cristianvandenbosse8989]

Can you do a video on gemmeker?

[@redjirachi1]

What happened to Beria doesn't compare to the harm he did to people on a personal level alone

[@shiv421kobra]

The movie The Death Of Stalin covered this beautifully

[@starsandnightvision]

The world is ruled by psychopaths, even today.

[@gsandy5235]

you usually use the word justified to describe such an execution