Stalin and His Hangmen (80 page)
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Authors: Donald Rayfield
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Historical, #History, #Modern, #20th Century, #Europe, #General
40. Sergo Orjonikidze very shortly after his suicide or murder, February 1937. Left to right: his widow Zinaida Orjonikidze, Molotov, Ezhov, Stalin, Zhdanov and Kaganovich.
41. Lavrenti Beria, mid-1920s
42. Beria’s guards, chauffeurs and pimps Nadaraia and Sarkisov
43. Caucasian Party caucus, 1935. Left to right: Pilipe Makharadze, Mir-Jafar Bagirov, Beria
44. Sailing on the Black Sea, 1933. Left to right: (back) Lakoba’s wife Sarie, Nina Beria, Lavrenti Beria, Lakoba’s son Rauf; on right, with her arm on the captain’s shoulder, Stalin’s daughter Svetlana
45. Party conference, 1935: head of Abkhaz Party Nestor Lakoba, Beria, head of Armenian Party Agasi Khanjian
46. Lakoba’s funeral, January 1937. The message on the wreath reads, ‘To our close friend Comrade Nestor from Nina and Lavrenti Beria’. Bottom: Nina and Lavrenti Beria
47. Vasili Blokhin, chief executioner at the Lubianka, 1940s
48. Meeting, 1936. Front row, left to right: Khrushchiov, Zhdanov, Kaganovich, Voroshilov, Stalin; second row, first from left: Georgi Malenkov
49. Head of SMERSH Viktor Abakumov,
c.
1946
50. Abakumov after his arrest, 1951
51. Latvians being deported to Siberia, 1946
52. Show trial of 1938
