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

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The Power Struggle After Stalin's Death<br />

Between <strong>the</strong> 6th <strong>of</strong> March 1953 and <strong>the</strong> 27th <strong>of</strong> June 1953 (113 days), <strong>the</strong><br />

Soviet Union was run entirely <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews headed <strong>by</strong> Lavrenti Beria. He<br />

forced Georgi Malenkov to resign as head <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Party on March 14th.<br />

(Malenkov died in Moscow in January 1988 at 86 years <strong>of</strong> age.) Nikita<br />

Khrushchev was named deputy general secretary. The Communist Party<br />

lacked an <strong>of</strong>ficial leader until September 1953, when a meeting <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Central Committee <strong>of</strong>ficially confirmed Khrushchev's position as Party<br />

leader. It was Kaganovich and Molotov who helped Khrushchev to get rid<br />

<strong>of</strong> Malenkov. It must be stated here that this period was not at all as<br />

chaotic as Khrushchev later maintained. The hi<strong>the</strong>rto secret documents are<br />

explicit in that respect. The pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> history Boris Starkov presented<br />

<strong>the</strong>se documents in his article "100 Days <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Marshal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Lu<strong>by</strong>anka<br />

or Was Lavrenti Beria a Reformer?" (The newspaper Fontanka in St.<br />

Petersburg, November 9, 1993.)<br />

On <strong>the</strong> 23rd <strong>of</strong> March, Beria issued a decree, which released over a<br />

million political prisoners. He had plans to reform <strong>the</strong> GULAG system. On<br />

<strong>the</strong> 16th <strong>of</strong> June 1953, he proposed that <strong>the</strong> forced labour system should<br />

be abolished since it was ineffective and lacked perspective. He also<br />

proposed that all <strong>the</strong> cases where people had been tried for counter-<br />

revolutionary activity should be reviewed. He recommended that all those<br />

people should be rehabilitated and that damages should be paid to <strong>the</strong><br />

innocent victims. He even wanted <strong>the</strong> deportees released. It was Beria who<br />

revoked all <strong>the</strong> charges against <strong>the</strong> Jewish doctors.<br />

Lavrenti Beria went even fur<strong>the</strong>r. He prohibited all Communist slogans<br />

before <strong>the</strong> parade at <strong>the</strong> victory celebration on <strong>the</strong> 9th <strong>of</strong> May 1953. On<br />

<strong>the</strong> 27th <strong>of</strong> May, he proposed halting <strong>the</strong> development <strong>of</strong> Socialism in East<br />

Germany and allowing Germany to reunite on a bourgeois basis.<br />

For <strong>the</strong> Soviet Union, however, he held some unacceptable plans. Beria<br />

wanted to sell <strong>the</strong> Baltic states to <strong>the</strong> Western powers. A KGB agent,<br />

Georg Meri (<strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> Estonia's former president, Lennart Meri), was<br />

to become prime minister <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> independent democracy <strong>of</strong> Estonia. It was<br />

Khrushchev who first spoke <strong>of</strong> Beria's plans to give away <strong>the</strong> Baltic<br />

countries. On <strong>the</strong> 12th <strong>of</strong> June 1953, Beria gave orders for <strong>the</strong> Russians in<br />

<strong>the</strong> Baltic republics to return to Russia and allow <strong>the</strong> local authorities to<br />

assume power. This order was immediately acted upon.<br />

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