The Independent - London, October 21st, 2000
SERGO BERIA, the son of Stalin's dreaded Soviet secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, lived the first part of his life as the pampered son of the Soviet elite, the second part in prison and exile, the third as a scientist with a successful career but in which he had to conceal his real identity, and the fourth as one who fought to clear his father's name of the crimes for which he was executed in 1953.
Born in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, Sergo was named after his godfather Sergo Ordjonikidze, Communist Party secretary in the Transcaucasus. He moved to Moscow in 1938 when his father was transf...
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