Beria archive. “Note from Beria to Stalin” is a false document. Analysis of statistical data

The leader was given tablets of highly toxic dicoumarin with a horse dosage

January 1955 marked the beginning of “black” mythologization Soviet history and the peak of Nikita KHRUSHCHEV’s struggle for sole power.

His main competitor, Lavrentiy BERIA, had already been accused of treason, shot and became such a scapegoat that in Sovetsky encyclopedic dictionary“Soon they stopped even mentioning his name.

Although in the famous Khrushchev report on the cult of personality of STALIN it is mentioned 61 times along with the name of the leader. Many researchers were convinced: Nikita Sergeevich not only slandered prominent government figures, but also contributed to their death.

But they couldn’t scientifically prove their versions. Recently discovered archival materials allowed the historian Alexander DUGIN for the first time to document Khrushchev's lies.

- Alexander Nikolaevich, what new did you find in the archive?

I went to the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History to see what documents on the history of the 1950s were transferred to RGASPI from the archive of the President of the Russian Federation. And I discovered a lot of interesting things. Firstly, confirmation of the words of Valentin Fadin - he prepared analytical notes for all the country's leaders from Stalin to Yeltsin. Wrote Khrushchev's foreign policy speeches.

And in 2011, he risked publicly declaring that Khrushchev, wanting to seize archival documents about his participation in the repressions, ordered the creation of a group of 200 special employees not only for the seizure original documents, but also for making fakes. Secondly, I discovered these forgeries in the “Beria case” and realized that among the falsifiers there were also honest officers who left “beacons” for their descendants to recognize the forgery.

- What kind of “beacons”?

There are several of them.

In any case of high treason, which Khrushchev accused Beria of, according to the then Criminal Procedure Code, there must be photographs of the persons involved in the case, their fingerprints, and protocols of confrontations. But in the materials of the “Beria case” there is not a single photograph of him, not a single fingerprint, not a single protocol of confrontations with any of his “accomplices”.

In addition, on the interrogation protocols there is not a single signature of Beria himself, nor is there a single signature of the investigator of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the most important cases of Tsaregradsky. There is only the signature of Major Administrative Service Yuryeva. And on many of the interrogation protocols of Beria there are no mandatory office-work “marks”: the initials of the executive typist, the number of printed copies, mailing addressees, etc. But all of the above are only external signs of a fake. - Were there also internal signs of forgery?

Certainly. One of the handwritten “originals” of Beria’s letters, allegedly written by him when he was already under arrest, bears the date “VI.28.1953,” literally screaming “don’t believe it!” You can find it at the link: RGASPI, f.17, op.171, d. 463, l.163.

- What exactly do you “don’t believe”?

The letter is addressed to “To the Central Committee of the CPSU, Comrade Malenkov.” In it, Beria speaks of his devotion to the party’s cause and asks his comrades-in-arms - Malenkov, Molotov, Voroshilov, Khrushchev, Kaganovich, Bulganin and Mikoyan: “let them forgive, if anything was wrong during these fifteen years of great and intense joint work.”

And he wishes them great success in the struggle for the cause of Lenin - Stalin. In tone, it resembles a note to friends and colleagues, written by a person who is going on vacation or who has decided to stay at home for a couple of days due to a cold. And it begins like this: “I was sure that from that great criticism at the Presidium I would draw all the necessary conclusions for myself and would be useful in the team. But the Central Committee decided otherwise, I think that the Central Committee did the right thing.” After reading this I was almost speechless!

The fact is that neither before nor after Stalin’s death Beria was subjected to any “great criticism” at any meetings of the Presidium. The first meeting of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee, at which serious accusations of Beria’s anti-state and anti-party actions were suddenly heard, took place on June 29, 1953. That is, the day AFTER this letter from Beria from his cell.

- You were almost speechless because of the date?

Yes. If the letter were genuine, it would reject the version of a number of my colleagues, which I shared one hundred percent. That Beria was killed at noon on June 26, 1953 in his mansion on Kachalova Street, now Malaya Nikitskaya.

- Killed by whom?

A special group sent to Lavrenty Pavlovich on Khrushchev’s order by Beria’s first deputy in the Ministry of State Security, Sergei Kruglov. Lieutenant General Andrei Vedenin, a former commander of a rifle corps who became commandant of the Kremlin in September 1953, described how his unit received the order to carry out Operation Mansion to eliminate Beria. And how it was performed. Then Beria's corpse was taken to the Kremlin and presented to members of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee. After such a “confrontation,” the Khrushchevites could, without fear, at the Plenum of the Central Committee on July 2–7, 1953, accuse Beria of all mortal sins. Win five months to clear the archives to destroy traces of your crimes.

And instill in the people official version Khrushchev: they say, former minister Internal Affairs of the USSR, ex-Deputy Chairman State Committee defense and a member of Stalin's Politburo was shot for treason on December 23, 1953 by court decision. And with Beria alive, Khrushchev could not have hidden the poisoning of Stalin and his complicity in this crime, which I have already described in detail.

Let me remind you that, in my opinion, in this double murder - first of Stalin, then of Beria - two people were most interested. The first was the Minister of State Security in 1951 - 1953, Semyon Ignatiev, to whom Stalin had serious questions in connection with a number of scandalous trials initiated by this man. Including the “Doctors’ Case” and the murder of Kirov. On March 2, 1953, the Presidium of the Central Committee was already supposed to consider the issue of removing Ignatiev from his post.

The second interested party is Khrushchev, Ignatiev’s supervisor, who since 1946 held the most important post of deputy head of the Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks for checking party officials and carried out all repressions against the leadership of the party and the state. If his ward failed, Khrushchev would also have thundered to the fanfare. At 10:30 pm on March 1, Stalin was found unconscious on the floor. After his death, Beria sorted through Stalin’s archive and, studying the history of his illness, could have suspected the named couple.

A double was in prison

- What exactly was Stalin poisoned with?

Commenting on the medical data published in the recently published book by Sigismund Mironin “How Stalin was Poisoned. Forensic medical examination", the chief toxicologist of Moscow, Honored Doctor of Russia Yuri Ostapenko said that the leader was probably poisoned with tablets with an increased dose of a drug that reduces blood clotting. Since 1940, dicumarin was the first and main representative of anticoagulants; for vascular problems and thrombosis, it was recommended to use it in small doses constantly, like aspirin today. However, due to its high toxicity, it was withdrawn from use at the end of the last century.

As a prophylactic measure, drink it once a day, in the afternoon. The laboratories of the NKVD-NKGB-MGB did not cost anything to produce tablets with an increased dosage and put them in regular packaging. After all, Ignatiev himself was in charge of Stalin’s personal security. “But someone should have seen Beria alive in his cell in order to confirm the version that he spent five months in prison, awaiting execution?”

He had several doubles. And, note, the funds of Molotov, Zhdanov and a number of other recipients of Beria’s “letters” are publicly available, but there are still no funds of Khrushchev and Beria. And in the official collection “The Politburo and the Beria Case” there is not a single fact confirmed by documents that could be qualified as treason. But I managed to find an important document from Stalin’s personal archive.

He confirms that Khrushchev, accusing Beria of voluntary service in the Musavatist counterintelligence that fought the labor movement in Azerbaijan, knew very well that he was blatantly lying. This document, dated November 20, 1920, reports that Beria was infiltrated into the counterintelligence censorship department on instructions from the Azerbaijani Communist Party. It was last requested from Stalin’s archive in July 1953, when the “Beria case” was fabricated. But for obvious reasons, he was not involved in it.

The body was poured with concrete

- Are you convinced that the “letters from the cell” are fake?

Yes sir. I took them to an independent handwriting examination. The chief specialist of RGASPI, Mikhail Strakhov, helped me find Beria’s original handwriting. To keep everything clean and honest, I chose lines from which it is impossible to understand who is writing to whom, and I paid for the examination out of my own pocket so that no one could influence its result. According to experts, the samples I presented were written by different people.

And this conclusion confirms that the reprisal against Beria occurred due to the fact that, having taken the post of head of the combined Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security, he was looking for an answer to the question of the real reasons for Stalin’s death. If he remained alive, there would be no revelations about the personality cult of Joseph Vissarionovich at the height of “ cold war» the conversation would not have come into play. And in 1961, when Norwegian biochemists analyzed Napoleon’s hair on behalf of the French government and found out that he was poisoned with arsenic, no one would urgently convene an extraordinary congress of the CPSU. And he did not raise the unexpected question of removing Stalin’s body from the Mausoleum and concreting it. Khrushchev covered his tracks!

- Why do you care so deeply about this whole story?

I decided to do this because I can’t calmly watch how the heroes of “Fricopedia” like Rezun-Suvorov and Radzinsky try to erase from people’s memory all the positive moments of Soviet history, painting it only in dirty tones. And a person, especially a young person, who despises the past of his country, cannot respect his present and build his future in a state where his father, grandfather, great-grandfather are portrayed as cattle.

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when in 1976 the book “The Execution that Never Happened” was published in the USA, in which the authors convincingly argued that royal family no one was shot, everyone involved in the first investigation, following the trail, disappeared, died and died under strange circumstances, and the secondary data of the famous Sokolov, hired by Kolchak (and it’s clear why), was not accepted by Maria Fedorovna (it’s also clear why), and in general in the Ipatiev House, everything was not as the politically engaged Sokolov described, that it was necessary to carry out an examination with the latest achievements of criminology - they were hastily demolished, and demolished by a man who was not very good at reaching from heaven, even at the Sverdlovsk level, and who 20 years later suddenly became the head states.

Failed architect

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The future People's Commissar of Internal Affairs was born on March 17, 1899 in a mountain village near Sukhumi. His mother Martha Jakeli, according to some sources, was a relative of the Georgian princes Dadiani. However, the noble origin did not help the woman: the family lived poorly, she barely managed to feed the children.

Nevertheless, Lavrenty, who showed a keen interest in science and technology, received a good education at the Sukhumi Higher primary school, and then entered the Mechanical and Technical Construction School in Baku. Why did Beria choose construction? Since childhood, he drew well, and, probably, if not for the revolution, then in the future we would have known him as a good architect. In addition, people who knew him claimed that the future People's Commissar of Internal Affairs had an amazingly subtle sense of beauty and was fond of photography.

After Beria moved to Baku, his mother and sister followed him. Only now Lavrentiy was feeding them, giving away most of their already meager earnings. When entering the Baku school, he wrote in the application form: “I had nothing and don’t have anything.”

His other passion was football. Beria's favorite team was Dynamo Tbilisi, and he himself once played on the field as a left midfielder. Beria tried not to miss matches of his favorite team, and was very upset when they suffered defeats.

Confidant

In 1931, he became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia - in fact, the leader of the republic. In 1938, Beria moved to Moscow, where he headed People's Commissariat Internal Affairs (NKVD). His rise was due to Stalin's favor. According to one version, he earned the trust of the “leader of the people” by arranging a meeting for Stalin with his mother Ekaterina (Keke) Dzhugashvili in October 1935.

She was extremely dissatisfied with her son that he did not become a priest, but joined the “godless Bolsheviks.” To promote the cult of Stalin, propagandists from the Communist Party were required to show the “long-awaited” meeting of a loving son with his mother. And Beria’s help, as the leader of Georgia, was most welcome in this matter.

He renovated Keke's house and had several conversations with her. What was happening was covered by Soviet newspapers: they periodically issued touching reports in which the mother of the “leader of the peoples” began to regret that she had not given birth to another son like him for the benefit of humanity. Well, later photographs of the embarrassed leader and happy Keke appeared in the newspapers. Citizens wept with emotion. The task was completed, Beria coped with it perfectly.

From that moment on, the future People's Commissar of Internal Affairs became one of the close associates of the "leader of the peoples." It is not surprising that it was to him that Stalin entrusted the most important task: to cleanse the NKVD of the people of his predecessors - Genrikh Yagoda and Nikolai Yezhov.

Sexual giant

In addition to work, Beria also found time for his personal life. So much so that rumors about his sexual insatiability circulated throughout Moscow. It was rumored that he personally looked out for pretty girls on the streets of the capital. At the same time, Beria was not interested in the age and social status of women. “I’m out hunting,” the Muscovites whispered. The people Beria liked were allegedly delivered by the head of his security, State Security Colonel Rafael Sarkisov.

Beria only had to point to the woman she liked, after which Sarkisov “invited” her to follow her into the car. He also kept a list of his boss’s mistresses. But after the arrest of the all-powerful head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it became clear that there was not one, but three lists. One had 39 names, another had 75, and the third had 115.

After the arrest of the chief, Sarkisov testified that one of Beria’s women was a certain student at the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​named Maya, who became pregnant from him and had an abortion. In addition, the head of the People's Commissar's security claimed that in 1943 Beria contracted syphilis.

An active personal life on the side did not prevent the all-powerful People's Commissar from being an exemplary family man. He was married to Nino Gegechkori, whom he met in the early 20s, when he was at party work in Georgia. In 1924, the couple had a son, Sergo, who became a designer of radar and missile systems.

It should be noted that Beria himself confirmed information about his adventures and the role of Sarkisov. During interrogation on July 8, 1953, answering the question whether Sarkisov acted as a pimp, Beria replied that he “did something.” “I will not deny this,” admitted the former Minister of Internal Affairs.

Bad house

In Moscow, Beria lived in a one-story modern mansion on Malaya Nikitskaya. Allegedly, it was there that the People's Commissar met with the women whom Sarkisov brought to him. A rich table and sumptuous treats awaited the visitors. After the feast came an obscene proposal. Some researchers argue that if they refused intimacy, unfortunate women faced a series of troubles, including criminal prosecution. Those who stayed with the owner of the mansion could count on certain preferences, for example, a promotion at work.

In one of the episodes of the “Top Secret” program, publicist and founder of the Gulag History Museum Anton Antonov-Ovseenko claimed that during the renovation of the building, a stone crusher was discovered in one of the basements of the house. He suggested that the tool was used to destroy the remains of the victims. It is noteworthy that during the repair of the heating plant on Malaya Nikitskaya, a large number of bones were discovered, and their number grew as they approached the ominous mansion.

Now "Beria's house" is occupied by the Tunisian embassy. According to embassy workers, the spirit of the former owner appears there to this day. This happens several times a month. The scenario is the same: the sound of a car approaching is heard near the house, the door opens, and inaudible male and female voices are heard moving away towards the entrance to the mansion.

Shot in the forehead

Beria was arrested a few months after Stalin's death - at the end of June 1953. The verdict of the special judicial presence of the Supreme Court of the USSR, chaired by Marshal Ivan Konev, stated that the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs allegedly put together a hostile organization with the aim of seizing power. Beria was accused of intending to eliminate the socialist system and restore capitalism. The verdict was predictable: death penalty.

Colonel Pavel Batitsky volunteered to carry it out. In the future, he will become one of the creators of the Soviet air defense and will rise to the rank of marshal. But on a gloomy winter day on December 23, he pointed a parabellum pistol at the forehead of Beria standing in front of him and immediately pulled the trigger.

The body of the executed man was not buried; it was burned in the crematorium oven. Subsequently, Beria's relatives unsuccessfully tried to achieve a review of the 1953 case and the rehabilitation of their relative. However, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia in May 2000 put a final point on this issue: it is not subject to rehabilitation.

Double?

However, Beria’s son Sergo believes that his father was shot either during the arrest or immediately after. According to him, on that day, machine gun fire was heard in the mansion on Malaya Nikitskaya, and then a body covered with a sheet was carried out of the house on a stretcher. However, there is no reliable information that it was the marshal himself.

Sergo Beria stated that at the trial the role of his father was played by a double. Allegedly, this information was shared with him by a member of the special judicial presence, Mitrofan Kuchava. The son of the disgraced head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also claimed that there was no cremation: his father’s corpse was allegedly dissolved in alkali.

09/21/2018

One thing is clear: if the party elite committed murder, in some way this person was very dangerous to them. Yes, he had all the powers given by Stalin. Is that really possible? Yes, and dangerous.

In addition, HE saw who killed Stalin, poisoned Borjomi with rat poison or arsenic. That’s why KHRUSHCHEV was removed, he didn’t even expect that this would happen in a row, otherwise he would have resisted, the NKVD was behind him. G.T.

And not with terrible plans to throw her off her beloved throne - Beria made it clear that he was not going to do this.

Of course, he was potentially dangerous - but they don’t kill us for that. At least they don’t kill like that, openly and openly. The normal Soviet move in the struggle for power was worked out back in 1937 - move, remove, and then arrest and falsify the case in the usual manner. By the way, this openness and frankness also contains a mystery - after all, it was possible to wait and remove it quietly and unnoticed. It looks like the killers were in a hurry...

They were afraid that the truth would be revealed about how Stalin died!!! G.T.

Khrushchev, in his revelations to foreign interlocutors, is disingenuous in some ways. He presents the decision to immediately execute Beria as a collegial verdict of all members of the Politburo.

“After a comprehensive discussion of the pros and cons of both options, we came to the conclusion: Beria should be shot immediately”...

"We!" So now we will believe that nine people, middle-aged, indecisive and rather cowardly, will rubber-stamp such a decision - to shoot without trial one of the top officials of the state. Never in their lives will these people, who have worked meekly all their lives under a strong leader, take on such responsibility! They will drown the issue in discussions and in the end, even if there are grounds, it will all end with deportation somewhere to Baku or Tyumen to the post of director of a plant - let him seize power there if he can.

So it was, and there is convincing evidence of this.

Secretary of the Central Committee Malenkov, in the process of preparing the meeting of the Presidium, wrote a draft of its work.

(Medvedev and his parents - MENDELI were relatives, one of the couple, Malenkov. Who lays claim to the MONARIAL THRONE!! G.T.

This draft has been published, and it makes it very clear what was to be discussed at this meeting. In order to prevent the possibility of abuse of power, Beria was supposed to be deprived of the post of Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and, perhaps, if the discussion went in the right direction, also relieve him of the post of Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, appointing him Minister of the Oil Industry as a last resort.

That's all. There was no talk of any arrest, much less any execution without trial. And it is difficult to even imagine, with all the strain of imagination, what could have happened so that the Presidium, contrary to the prepared scenario, would impromptu make such a decision. This couldn't happen. And if it couldn’t, it means it didn’t exist. And the fact that this did not happen, that this issue was not considered at all by the Presidium, is evidenced by the fact that the draft was found in Malenkov’s archive - otherwise it would have been handed over for formalization of the decision and then destroyed.

So there was no "we". Beria was first killed, and then the Presidium was presented with a fait accompli, and he had to get out of it by covering up the killers.

But who exactly? THE ONE who saw Stalin's murderers! Khrushchev!

But here it is very easy to guess.

Firstly, it is easy to calculate the number two - the performer. The fact is that - and no one denies this - the army was widely involved in the events that day. In the incident with Beria, as Khrushchev himself admits, the commander of the air defense of the Moscow Military District, Colonel General Moskalenko and the chief of staff of the Air Force, Major General Batitsky, were directly involved, and Marshal Zhukov himself does not seem to refuse.

But, more importantly, for some reason, apparently, to stage a fight against “Beria’s units,” troops were brought into the capital. And then a very important name comes up - a person who could ensure contact with the military and the participation of the army in the events - Defense Minister Bulganin.

It is not difficult to calculate number one. Who poured dirt on Beria the most, completely losing self-control and presenting him as a fiend of hell?

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. By the way, not only Bulganin, but also Moskalenko and Batitsky were people from his team.

Bulganin and Khrushchev - we have already met this combination somewhere. Where? Yes, at Stalin’s dacha, on that fateful Sunday, March 1, 1953.

Compromising evidence?

There is one mystery in the events that took place after Stalin's death - the fate of his papers.

Stalin's archive as such does not exist - all his documents have disappeared. On March 7, some special group, as Svetlana claims, “on the orders of Beria” (but this is not a fact) removed all the furniture from Nizhnyaya Dacha. Later, the furniture was returned to the dacha, but without the papers. All documents from the Kremlin office and even from the leader’s safe also disappeared. Where they are and what happened to them is still unknown.

Naturally, it is believed that Beria, as the super-powerful chief of the special services, took possession of the archives, especially since the security was subordinate to the MGB department. Yes, but the guards were subordinate to state security while the person being protected was alive.

I wonder who the Kuntsevo dacha was in charge of after Stalin’s death? Also the MGB department or, perhaps, this empty shell was managed by some government administrative and economic department? According to another version, the entire leadership of that time took part in the seizure of the archive, concerned about the liquidation of the dossiers that Stalin collected on them.

Beria, naturally, was also afraid that incriminating evidence against him, located in these archives, would be made public. It’s also hard to believe - with so many accomplices, someone would certainly have let it slip after so many years.

Who knew nothing about the fate of the archive was Malenkov. Why - more on this a little later. There are two options left: either Khrushchev or Beria. If we assume that the archive fell into the hands of Khrushchev, then its fate is most likely sad. There could have been a lot of compromising evidence on Nikita Sergeevich - participation in Yezhov’s repressions alone was worth it! Neither he nor his comrades had time to look for all these “dossiers” among the mountains of papers; it was easier to burn everything in bulk. But if Beria was the first to succeed, then the situation here is completely different.

He had nothing to fear from some mysterious “documents” in the Stalinist archive, which, if made public, could destroy him - there was hardly anything there for him, even if through the efforts of the entire jurisprudence of the USSR, despite the fact that it was very necessary, they couldn’t dig up material for one more or less decent sub-execution case.

But he was vitally interested in compromising information on Stalin’s former comrades - both for future possible opportunities and to ensure his own safety.

Indirectly, his son Sergo testifies that the archive most likely fell into the hands of Beria. After the murder of his father, he was arrested, and one day he was called in for questioning, and in the investigator’s office he saw Malenkov. This was not the first visit of the distinguished guest; he had already come once and persuaded Sergo to testify against his father, but was not persuaded. However, this time he came for something different.

“Maybe you can help with something else? - he said it somehow very humanly. -Have you heard anything about the personal archives of Joseph Vissarionovich?

-“I have no idea,” I answer. - We never talked about this at home.

- Well, of course... Your father also had archives, huh?

- I don’t know either, I’ve never heard of it.

- How did you not hear?! - here Malenkov could no longer restrain himself. - He must have archives, he must!

He was obviously very upset."

That is, not only Stalin’s archives disappeared, but also Beria’s archives, and Malenkov knew nothing about their fate. Of course, theoretically, Khrushchev could have confiscated and liquidated them, but to do it in such a way that no one would see, hear or know anything? Doubtful. Stalin's archives were all right, but Beria's archives were completely impossible to secretly destroy. And Khrushchev was not the kind of person to carry out such an operation and not spill the beans.

So, most likely, Beria took possession of Stalin’s archive. I repeat once again that it made no sense for him to destroy it, much less destroy his own archive, and there are nine chances out of ten that he hid all the papers somewhere. But where?

Chesterton wrote in one of his stories about Father Brown: “Where does a smart man hide a leaf? In the forest". Exactly. Where were the relics of the great Russian saint Alexander of Svirsky hidden? In the anatomical museum. And if you need to hide an archive, where does a smart person hide it? Naturally, in the archive!

It is only in novels that our archives are organized, systematized and catalogued. The reality looks a little different. I once had to talk with a person who had been in the archives of the Radio House. He was shocked by what he saw there, he told how he sorted through boxes of records that were not listed in any catalogs, but simply dumped in a heap - there were recordings of performances, next to which Gergiev’s vaunted productions were like a donkey next to an Arabian horse . This is one example.

Another example can be found in newspapers, which from time to time report a sensational discovery in one of the archives where they found something absolutely amazing. How are these finds made? It’s very simple: some curious trainee looks into a chest that no one has poked their nose into before, and finds it. And what about the story of the missing rare antique vases that stood peacefully in the basement of the Hermitage for decades? So the easiest way to hide an archive of any size is to dump it in one of the storage rooms of another archive, where it will lie in complete secret and safety until some curious trainee looks into it and wonders what kind of dusty bags are lying in the corner. And, opening one of the bags, he picks up a paper with the inscription: “To my archive. I.St.”

But still, people don’t kill for possessing incriminating evidence either. On the contrary, this becomes especially dangerous, because the possibility cannot be ruled out that in a secret safe of a faithful person there are the most important papers in an envelope with the inscription: “In case of my death. L. Beria." No, something completely extraordinary had to happen for such rather cowardly people as Khrushchev and his company to decide to kill, and even so quickly. What could it be?

The answer came by chance.

Having decided to give Ignatiev’s biography in this book, I came across the following phrase: On June 25, in a note to Malenkov, Beria proposed arresting Ignatiev, but did not have time. There may be an error in the date, because on June 26 G.T. was “arrested” (he was immediately killed at home and was carried out on a stretcher). Beria himself, but, on the other hand, perhaps he spoke about this verbally with someone a few days before, or a secret spy in the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported to Khrushchev. It was also clear that the new People's Commissar was not going to leave the old one alone. On April 6, “for political blindness and roteness,” Ignatiev was removed from the post of Secretary of the Central Committee, and on April 28, he was removed from the Central Committee. At the suggestion of Beria, the CCP was instructed to consider the issue of Ignatiev’s party responsibility. But all this was not the same, all this was not scary. And then information arrived that Beria was asking Malenkov for permission for this arrest.

For the conspirators, this was not danger, it was death!

It is not difficult to guess that at Lubyanka the former head of Stalin’s security would have been cracked like a nut and squeezed like a lemon. What would have happened next is not difficult to predict if you remember how Beria kissed the hand of the dying Stalin. Not a single one of the conspirators would have met the New Year, 1954, alive; Beria, not caring about the legality for such an occasion, would have personally killed them with his boots in the Lubyanka basements.

This is what usually happens with “genius impromptu”. What to do? Remove Ignatiev? Dangerous: where is the guarantee that he doesn’t have a description of the night at Stalin’s dacha, and maybe even much more, in a safe place with a reliable person? He knew who he was dealing with. So what to do?

But this is the motive! Because of this, Beria could really have been killed, moreover, they should have been killed, and exactly the way it was done. For there was nothing to arrest him for, and because of the dead Beria, as Khrushchev rightly noted, hardly anyone would make a fuss: what’s done is done, you can’t bring back a dead man. Moreover, if you imagine everything as if he offered armed resistance during arrest. Well, then let propaganda work to present him as a monster and a supervillain, so that grateful descendants can say: “It may have been a crime, but it was not a mistake.”

E. Prudnikova

Source http://taynikrus.ru/zagadki-istorii/ubijstvo-berii-za-chto/

For the “secret” classification to actually appear, the state needs compelling reasons. Most of these cases are state secrets. But many personal archives famous people become secret at the request of the heirs, who do not want their ancestors to appear in an unflattering light.

The most secret documents became in 1938

A radical change in the matter of classifying information occurred in 1918, when the Main Directorate of Archives was organized under the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. The brochure “Save the Archives” published by Bonch-Bruevich was distributed through ROSTA Windows to all government agencies, where there was, in particular, a provision on the secrecy of certain information. And in 1938, management of all archival affairs passed to the NKVD of the USSR, which classified a huge amount of information, numbering tens of thousands of files, as secret. Since 1946, this department received the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, and since 1995 - the FSB. Since 2016, all archives have been reassigned directly to the President of Russia.

Questions for the royal family

The so-called famous Novoromanovsky archive of the royal family, most of which was initially classified, has not been fully declassified Bolshevik leadership, and after the 90s, some of the archival documents were made widely public. It is noteworthy that the work of the archive itself was strictly confidential. And one could guess about his activities only from indirect documents of employees: certificates, passes, payroll records, personal files of employees - this is what remains of the secret work Soviet archive. But the correspondence between Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fedorovna has not been fully disclosed. Palace materials concerning the relationship between the court and ministries and departments during the First World War are also not available.

KGB Archives

Most KGB archives are classified on the grounds that the operational investigative activities of many agents can still cause damage to counterintelligence work and reveal the methodology of its work. Some successful cases in the field of terrorism, espionage, and smuggling have also been mothballed. This also applies to cases related to intelligence and operational work in the Gulag camps.

Stalin's affairs

1,700 files compiled in the 11th inventory of the Stalin Foundation were transferred from the archive of the President of the Russian Federation to the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, of which about 200 cases were classified as secret. The cases of Yezhov and Beria are of considerable interest, but they were published only in parts, and there is still no complete information on the cases of “executed enemies of the people.”

Confirmation that many more documents remain to be declassified is the fact that in 2015, at four meetings of the Interdepartmental Expert Commission on the Declassification of Documents under the Governor of St. Petersburg, 4,420 cases for the years 1919-1991 were completely declassified. Party archives are also “secret”. Of considerable interest to researchers are the resolutions of the Council of People's Commissars, the resolutions of the Council of Ministers, and the decisions of the Politburo. But most of the party archives are classified.

New archives and new secrets

The main task of the Presidential Archive established in 1991 Russian Federation was a consolidation of documents from the former archive of USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, and then the subsequent period during the reign of Boris Yeltsin. The Presidential Archive contains about 15 million various documents, but only a third of them, five million, are in the public domain today.

Secret personal archives of Vladi, Vysotsky, Solzhenitsyn

The personal funds of Soviet leader Nikolai Ryzhkov, Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vladi are closed to the general public. Do not think that documents are classified as “secret” only with the help of government officials. For example, the personal fund of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, stored in the Russian state archive literature and art, is in secret storage because the heir, the writer’s wife Natalya Dmitrievna, personally decides whether or not to make the documents public. She motivated her decision by the fact that documents often contain poems by Solzhenitsyn that are not particularly good, and she would not want others to know about this.

In order to make public the materials of the investigative case in which Solzhenitsyn ended up in the Gulag, it was necessary to obtain the consent of two archives - the Ministry of Defense and the Lubyanka.

Plan for "secrets"

The head of Rosarkhiv, Andrei Artizov, said in one of his interviews: “We declassify documents in accordance with our national interests. There is a declassification plan. To make a decision on declassification, three or four experts with knowledge are needed foreign languages, historical context, legislation on state secrets.”

Special Commission on Declassification

In order to declassify materials, a special commission was created in each archive. Usually - from three people who decided on what basis to give or not give wide publicity to this or that document. Secret materials are of unconditional interest to a wide range of people, but historians warn: working with archives is a delicate matter and requires certain knowledge. This is especially true for secret archival materials. Not many have access to them - thousands of documents from time to time Russian Empire And Soviet Union classified for various reasons.