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|1=Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union)
|2=Katyn massacre
|3=Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250
|4=Bezhin Meadow
|5=Tear down this wall!
|6=Battle of Moscow
|7=T-34
|8=Tupolev Tu-142
|9=Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev
|10=Second Battle of Kharkov
|11=Transport in the Soviet Union
|12=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)
|13=Operation Uranus
|14=Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956–1962
|15=Winter War
|16=First Nagorno-Karabakh War
|17=2nd Red Banner Army
|18=Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia
|19=Hungarian Revolution of 1956
|20=Laika
|21=Battle of Radzymin (1920)
|22=68th Mountain Rifle Division
|23=5th Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union)
|24=Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
|25=History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)
|26=Lavochkin La-7
|27=Revolutionary activity of Vladimir Lenin
|28=Katyusha rocket launcher
|29=Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev
|30=Continuation War
|31=Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev
|32=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)
|33=Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)
|34=Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union)
|35=Lysenkoism
|36=Soviet–Albanian split
|37=Raid on Constanța
|38=Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
|39=History of computing in the Soviet Union
|40=Mir
|41=Sputnik 1
|42=Punch-up in Piestany
|43=Solaris (1972 film)
|44=Background of the Winter War
|45=Transport in the Soviet Union
|46=Welles Declaration
|47=Zond 5
|48=Tartu Offensive
|49=Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945. During the 1950s, he wanted to allow some private industry, weaken the kolkhoz system, and restore diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Molotov suspected that Beria was responsible for Stalin's death.
Beria's ally, Viktor Abakumov, was arrested in 1951 and removed from his position as leader of the MVD. Soon after, many of Beria's supporters were purged from the Georgian Central Committee for corruption. (Full article...)
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