Lavrentiy Beria was a truly evil man. From 1938 to 1953, Beria was chief of Joseph Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD. Under Beria, the NKVD conducted purges of Communist Party loyalists and executed ...

Former national security adviser John Bolton compared Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, to one of the former Soviet Union’s most feared secret police chiefs, Lavrentiy Beria ...

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March [O.S. 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 ...

“Name the person and I will find the crime” is a statement attributed to Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s head of the Soviet secret police. There are more than 4,000 federal felonies on the books of the U.S.

The First Friend by Malcolm Knox is a dark and sadly relevant exploration of power, loyalty, and moral compromise in an age of creeping authoritarianism and the return of strongman politics. Set in ...