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Eliava had the misfortune to fall in love, and then sleep with, an opera singer that Beria was obsessed with.

He then raped her telling her 'scream or not, doesn't matter.' Yet Beria already knew her relatives had been executed months earlier.

Then Beria held all the cards until he was ousted and shot in turn.

Sorry to say but Goebbels, Beria and so on come to mind.

In one case, Beria picked up Tatiana Okunevskaya - a well-known Soviet actress - under the pretence of bringing her to perform for the Politburo.

And Beria was never leader of Russia or the Soviet Union: he was head of the spy service, a position held since 2008 by Alexander Bortnikov.

You've heard about Beria, but probably haven't heard about Bortnikov because Bortnikov has been much much less violent and hasn't made a habit of raping Russian women in plain view on the streets of Moscow like Beria did.

His main men got on fighting for a few years, with a few important ones like Molotov and Beria (initially considered something of a favorite) ending up sidelined or dead.

To use a line sometimes attributed to Beria, “give me the man and I will give you the case against him”.

A citizen or resident of of the US most likely has to worry more about his own government adopting the policies of "Lavrentiy Beria" than China.

Every law in the sense of cumulatively, the ‘rule of law’ system has the same property of “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” that Beria’s system did.

“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” - Beria If you get noticed the future might not turn out well for you.

Women also submitted to Beria's sexual advances in exchange for the promise of freeing their relatives from the Gulag.

Nikolai Yezhov held all the cards under Stalin, right up until he got purged by Beria.

It isn't going to be easy to transfer the cult of personality from Stalin to Beria.