Lavrentiy Beria

Uh, it makes sense.

So this was their dominant perceived threat, and that's when the military intelligence Colonel Zakaria Mohieddin, who was dubbed Nasser's Beria, uh, in reference to Stalin's Beria, he organized this, uh, security setup, which continued with us all the way up until 2013, whereby he fragmented the security sector.

So you had the military, you had the interior ministry and its secret police, which changed its name, you know, several times, uh, from Al Mabaḥth Al ʻĀmma to Mabaḥth Amn ad-Dawla to then after the revolution, Amn al-Watani.

And he created the General Intelligence Service, uh, in 1954, or our Mukhabarat, as we call it.

Fortunately for the Soviets, German bombing accuracy proved dismal.

The gunboat Beria was attacked about sixteen times over four days without suffering a single hit.

The flotilla's flagship, the Perdika, was not as fortunate.

On the morning of September the 1st, three Ju 88s managed to land a bomb squarely upon her, killing thirteen sailors and sending the ship to the bottom by about ten thirteen AM.

Its forces reorganized into the Black Sea Group under the Trans Caucasus Front, now commanded by Cherevichenko.

The thoroughly discredited Marshal Budyonny was removed from field command for the remainder of the war, though he would later occupy various inspectorate and non-combative roles.

On the 3rd, acting on Beria's advice, Stavka relieved the commander of the 9th Army for dereliction of duty, replacing him with Koroteyev.

The 17th Cavalry Corps, meanwhile, had already been elevated to guard status at the end of August, becoming the 4th Guards Cavalry Corps.

So this was their dominant perceived threat.

And that's when the military intelligence colonel, Zakaria Mohideen, who was dubbed Nasser's Beria in reference to Stalin's Beria, he organized this security setup, which continued with us all the way up until 2013. whereby he fragmented the security sector.

So you had the military, you had the interior ministry and its secret police, which changed its name, you know, several times, from Mabahf al-Amma to Mabahf Amn al-Dawla to then after the revolution, Amn al-Watani.

And he created the General Intelligence Service in 1954, or our Mukhabarat, as we call it.

No, he didn't.

He, he, one of his heroes, though, was Beria, was, which was the guy that was responsible for Stalin's purges.

Uh, and this is the guy teaching history at that school.

And, like, he starts the class by saying that, uh, you know, if you disagree with your government, you should leave immediately because you're a traitor.

I also think, you know, twelve million people, that's a huge number, and I think, let's say, let's say it's really ten million, I don't know, whatever the real number is.

My personal theory is that Stalin and Beria were worried that they were all going to join the Germans.

Um, of course, the Jews wouldn't, but, you know, uh, Hitler had a tremendous, um, a Russian contingent that I don't think he treated very well.

I have a paper that, uh, Erich Koch, the, um, the SS, uh, head of, of Ukraine was actually working for Stalin, um, and I think it's true because of how he abused the allies and eventually turned them against him.

In the Politburo, Molotov, Kaganov, and Veroshulov were the most positively disposed to the EAK, and according to rumors, some members of the Politburo were inclined to support this Crimean idea.

On February 15, 1944, Stalin was forwarded a memorandum about the plan, which was signed by Mikols, Pfeffer, and Efstein.

According to P. Sudoplatov, although the decision to expel the Tartars from Crimea was done, had been made by Stalin earlier, the order to carry it out reached Beria on February 14th.

So the memorandum was quite timely.

More recently, there was The First Friend.

It was set in 1938 in the Soviet Union and it was a story of Beria, one of Stalin's off-siders and a very nasty human

being indeed.

That was a novel that combined real historical detail and people, especially, as you say...

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, head of Stalin's secret police from 1938 to 1945, not to mention Stalin himself.

And of course, they're both from Georgia.

But he also used fictional characters, including Beria's best friend, a man called Murtov.

So that was the first

Well, Letitia James was told by people in her office that this was a ridiculous suit.

That, and she, she campaigned on, she campaigned, there's clips of her, I urge you all to go look them up, where she said, "I'm gonna get Donald Trump." In other words, it was, you know, it was a Soviet t- uh, show me a Beria, Lavandy Ber- Beria, show me, uh, the person, and I'll find the crime.

And she did, and it was ridiculous.

How in the world, when he takes a loan from the Deutsche Bank, and he pays it ahead of time with full interest, does, does she say there's fraud when there's no injured party that she can identify? The Deutsche Bank said, "No, we'd lend it again." And then she said, "Well, he undervalued the Mar-a-Lago estate at $17 million," and that's what it was assessed at the time.