"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

them died from starvation and exhaustion. From 1943, the Chekists
managed to collect two million children per year.
Bcria became a dreadful executioner during the Second World War,
since he was able to conceal his crimes as the work of the Nazis. He had
nearly 20 million people captured and sent to slave camps.
According to the latest estimates, the Soviet Union lost at least 32
million, possibly 45 million, citizens during the Second World War. The
historian Nikolai Tolstoy claims that most of them (presumably 20
million) were killed by order of Lavrenti Beria. All those deaths were
blamed on the Germans. During the war, Beria had founded a fearsome
terror organization, Smersh ("Death to the spies!"), which murdered a vast
number of people. Those executioners were so proud of their work that
they had themselves filmed while in action. The director Stanislav
Govorukhin showed a few such film sequences in his "The Russia We
Lost", where Smersh hanged "enemies of the people" and cheerfully
applauded their crime. Many people ended up in special camps called
ChSIR. Those were intended for the families of traitors to the fatherland.
All prisoners of war were also regarded as traitors. Millions were captured
in thc years 1941-42. Many of them starved to death since Lazar
Kaganovich and Lavrenti Beria, in Stalin's name, forbade the Red Cross
to bring the prisoners food. Oddly enough, the Red Cross complied, and
still more people died.
Stalin, Kaganovich and Beria took care to destroy all the food stores
before the German siege of Leningrad - they wanted to destroy all the
awkward witnesses to the historic events in that city. Ludmila Grunberg,
who lived in Leningrad at the time, confirmed this.
Beria was made marshal of the Soviet Union for his cruel terror during
the war. Semyon Ignatiev was named the new chief of the NKVD. Beria
was made chairman of the Atomic Commission in 1946. He still held a lot
of power as the people's commissary for internal affairs and continued his
terror campaign also after the war. He proved himself to be a thousand
times worse than Yagoda and Yezhov together.
During the campaigns against "counter-revolutionaries and for the
realisation of the land reform 1949-52" at least five million people,
according to conservative estimates, were executed. (Svenska Dagbladet,
27 th November 1988.) Kaganovich and Beria were responsible for
those mass murders.
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