>Women also submitted to Beria's sexual advances in exchange for the promise of freeing their relatives from the Gulag. In one case, Beria picked up Tatiana Okunevskaya – a well-known Soviet actress – under the pretence of bringing her to perform for the Politburo. Instead he took her to his dacha where he offered to free her father and grandmother from NKVD prison if she submitted. He then raped her telling her "scream or not, it doesn't matter."[47] Yet Beria already knew her relatives had been executed months earlier. Okunevskaya was arrested shortly afterwards and sentenced to solitary confinement in the Gulag from which she survived.
>Beria's sexually predatory nature was well-known to the Politburo, and though Stalin took an indulgent viewpoint (considering Beria's wartime importance), he said, "I don't trust Beria." In one instance when Stalin learned his daughter was alone with Beria at his house, he telephoned her and told her to leave immediately. When Beria complimented Alexander Poskrebyshev's daughter on her beauty, Poskrebyshev quickly pulled her aside and instructed her, "Don't ever accept a lift from Beria."[48] After taking an interest in Marshal Kliment Voroshilov's daughter-in-law during a party at their summer dacha, Beria shadowed their car closely all the way back to the Kremlin terrifying Voroshilov's wife.
was he, dare I say it, /ourguy/?
/your guy/ maybe, the vast majority here are homosexual so they are certainly discounted
>>2907314
He still would have been a better leader than Kruschev. He actually wanted to reform the soviet economy (never was a big believer in Marxism, just an opportunist and carreerist) and tone down the terror a bit. He could have been a Soviet Deng Xiaoping if he got hos way
>>2907314
Real nice guys, these Bolsheviks.
>>2907369
He also wanted to improve relations with America and accept the Marshall aid.
>>2907369
Not that Khruschev didn't try to make fundamental changes to the Soviet system though. Brezhnev in many ways was a kneejerk reaction by conservatives within the system.
>>2907369
Beria was actually more bloodthirsty than Stalin. A lot of atrocities commited by Stalinist regime (such as Katyn massacre or the deportation of the Chechens, for example) were actually Beria's ideas, so it's very hard to believe that he would have toned down the terror.
He should have got a role on Inbetweeners.