What the Republicans will do once Trump leaves office:

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5. Levrentii Beria was an evil man, a pedophile who had a penchant for

'arresting' and torturing young girls.

I can remember reading a bio of Stalin back in the 90s that said they all watched - Kruschev, Molotov and Beria - and let him die. This bio was interesting because it was written after some of the old Soviet archives were opened.

Apparently, Stalin in 1953 felt that the Soviets could beat the west in a war, and so had decided to institute a new 'terror' that the west could not ignore, given what had become public only a few years earlier at Nuremberg. Stalin's plan, according to this biographer, was to begin rounding up and persecuting Russian Jews. This, he felt, would precipitate a war, again a war which he thought the USSR could win.

It is interesting also to note that it was Kruschev, not Beria, who emerged as the leader of the USSR, and that with him the days of massive death purges of political enemies ended. Stalin would just have his enemies executed. With Kruschev, enemies were exiled but allowed to live. Mostly.