Information about Beria, Malenkov, Khrushchev:

BERIA:

• head of secret police
• was Stalin's cheif henchman from 1938-53
• was a sexual predator/******
• picked up women off the streets
• was a child molestor
• most likely personally killed people as well as ordering murders
• were indications that he wanted liberal reforms if he became Stalin's successor: initiated the release of 1 million prisoners from the labour camps
• was outmanoeuvred by Khrushchev arrested and shot in 1953
• offered the West a proposal for reuniting Germany

MALENKOV:

• became a member of the Politburo in 1946
• on Stalin's death he held the position of being Prime Minister
• his foreign policy was known as the 'New Course' and this encouraged better…