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Abakumov was the head of SMERSH from 1943 to 1946 ; his relationship with Beria was marked by close collaboration ( since Abakumov owed his rise to Beria's support and esteem ), but also by rivalry.
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Also, by the summer of 1946, Beria's man Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov was replaced as head of the Ministry for State Security ( MGB ) by Viktor Abakumov.
Around that time, Abakumov was replaced by Semyon Ignatyev, who further intensified the anti-Semitic campaign.
As Beria's fall from power began, Sarkisov sent the list to the new NKVD chief ( and former wartime head of SMERSH ), Viktor Abakumov, who was already aggressively building a case against Beria.
The head of the agency throughout its existence was Viktor Abakumov, who rose to become Minister of State Security in the postwar years.
The organization was headed by Viktor Abakumov, who was a subordinate of Lavrenty Beria.
Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov ( 24 April 1908, Moscow – 19 December 1954, Moscow ; Colonel General ), was a high level Soviet security organs official, from 1943 to 1946 the head of SMERSH in the USSR People's Commissariat of Defense, and from 1946 to 1951 Minister of State Security or MGB ( ex-NKGB ).
Abakumov was a notoriously brutal official who was known to torture prisoners personally.
Abakumov was born in 1908 in Moscow.
Despite being only a teenager, Abakumov joined the Red Army, and served with the 2 Special Task Moscow Brigade in the Russian Civil War, until he was demobilized in December 1923.
This was a clear demotion ; Abakumov was a compulsive womanizer, and his superior, P. M. Shreider, felt that he was unfit to be a Chekist.
In 1934 after the reorganization of security apparatus ( the OGPU was joint to NKVD as a GUGB ), Abakumov started his work in a 1st Section of Economics Department ( EKO ) by the Main Directorate of State Security of NKVD.
In April 1937 Abakumov was moved to the 4th Department ( OO ) of GUGB of the NKVD where he served until March 1938.
Near the end of December 1938 Abakumov was moved from Moscow to Rostov, where soon he became the head of UNKVD of Rostov Oblast, ( the head of the local NKVD Office ).
Abakumov returned to Moscow Hq on February 12, 1941 as a Senior Major of State Security and, after the reorganization and creation of the new NKGB, he became one of the deputies of Lavrentiy Beria who was the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs ( head of the NKVD ).
In 1943 for some time ( from April 19 to May 20, 1943 ), Abakumov was one of Stalin ’ s deputies, when he held the post of People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR.
In April 1943 when Chief Counterintelligence Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defence of the USSR ( or GUKR NKO USSR ) better known as SMERSH was created, Abakumov was put in charge of it, in the rank of Commissar ( 2nd rank ) of State Security, and held the title of vice-Commissar of Defense.
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Between 1950 and 1951, he was the deputy of MGB head Viktor Abakumov.
Abakumov and SMERSH
Serov was one of the major figures in SMERSH, the wartime counterintelligence department of the Red Army, a deputy to Viktor Abakumov.
Abakumov and 1946
In 1946, Stalin appointed Abakumov Minister for State Security ( MGB ).
** Viktor Abakumov ( March 18, 1946 – 1951 )
He briefly served as Minister of the MGB in 1946, but was soon replaced by his rival Viktor Abakumov.
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* Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov 1946 / 10 / 18-1951 / 07 / 14
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Abakumov, however, was not released ; he was eventually tried for his role in the Leningrad Affair and executed on 18 December 1954.
Abakumov and with
Kruglov and Abakumov moved expeditiously to replace Beria's men in the security apparatus leadership with new people.
In the following months, Abakumov started carrying out important operations without consulting Beria, often working in tandem with Zhdanov, and sometimes on Stalin's direct orders.
Starting in 1948, Abakumov initiated several investigations against these leaders, which culminated with the arrest in November 1951 of Rudolf Slánský, Bedřich Geminder, and others in Czechoslovakia.
Beria and Malenkov together with Abakumov organized massive executions of their rivals in the Leningrad Affair where all leaders of Leningrad and Zhdanov's allies were killed, and thousands more were locked up in Gulag labour camps upon Stalin's approval.
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Abakumov had survived the great purge by participating in it.
Executions and purges were done by Viktor Abakumov and MGB.
* Report by Shkiryatov and Abakumov about Zhemchuzhina to Stalin, in Russian
Abakumov and Beria's
Stalin had begun to encourage Abakumov to form his own network inside the MGB to counter Beria's dominance of the power ministries.
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At the end of 1951 an MGB employee, Mikhail Ryumin bypassed Abakumov and went directly to Stalin to report his creation, the Doctor's Plot.
Abakumov was accused of inaction and was arrested and brutally tortured.
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Johnson's left hand was pressed against the side of his head, red cheeks whitening beneath his fingers.
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The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.
It was the marine: head lifted, he strained and called.
Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.
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But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.
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It was unexpected, unexpected because Lilly walked with her head bent down, down, and her mark of friendship was to look into your face.
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