Beria's last words, who to believe
Khrushchev was a man of wisdom among the leaders of the Soviet party, who was keenly aware of Beria's weakness and succeeded in bringing it down. After Stalin's death, he quickly came to a consensus with his colleagues and succeeded in wrestling Beria with control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
However, Beria underestimated the threat and mistakenly thought that he did not need to worry about security. However, Khrushchev was premeditated and succeeded in drawing the army and Zhukov into his camp.
On June 26, 1953, at a meeting of the Kremlin, Khrushchev suddenly attacked Beria, accusing him of ** activities.
Zhukov led several generals to break into the conference room, and Beria was ordered to raise his hands. Beria tried to take ** from his purse, but was stopped in time. Upon inspection, there was no ** in the purse.
Beria was taken out of the Kremlin and imprisoned in the Moscow Military District guards, where he was transferred to a specially set up room.
Beria was executed on December 23, 1953, and although his image was disparaged as a brutal executioner during the trial, in reality he may have been much more complicated than that.
According to Marshal Zhukov, in the last moments of his life Beria cried hysterically, wept bitterly, begged for forgiveness. In his recollections, Zhukov described Beria as behaving like the worst coward, crying hysterically, kneeling on the ground, covered in his own excrement, in short, it was better to die than to live.
In his final statement in court, in addition to admitting that he had a large number of extramarital affairs, Beria denied all the charges against him and asked to be given a lenient sentence taking into account his actual contribution to the country.
On July 28, 1994, in an interview with the Moscow Evening News, Major Shizhenko categorically rejected Marshal Zhukov's recollections. "I was by his side from beginning to end, I didn't kneel, I didn't pray, he just was silent, his face was pale, and the right side of his face twitched slightly," he recalled. ”
Bowel Batitsky carried out the sentence, and Lavrenti Beria's son and Stalin's daughter confirmed that Beria was killed immediately after being arrested at home without trial.
His last sentence was very short, just one sentence: "livestock". There is not a single one of Beria's trials, and the interrogation records and letters about his request for forgiveness are copies, not originals.
Descriptions of those involved in the arrests also vary. There is no Beria's fingerprint in the dossier materials, and the estate documents are incorrectly compiled and anonymous. Nor is there a record of confronting Beria with accomplices or witnesses.
All this contradicts legal norms. The "bloody executioner" ended his life in this way, both suspiciously and cruelly.