Beria was defeated at the next Presidium plenums by a majority against him, and not long after, Khrushchev and Malenkov started to plan Beria's fall from power.

Beria's downfall led to the collapse of his " empire "; the powers of the MVD was curtailed, and the KGB was established.

It is believed that Stalin felt Beria's power was too great and threatened his own.

Stalin gave it absolute priority and the project was completed in under five years in no small part due to Soviet espionage against the West organized by Beria's NKVD.

The compliance of the NKVD was ensured by Zhukov's troops, and after interrogation Beria was taken to the basement of the Lubyanka and shot by General Pavel Batitsky along with Beria's most trusted associates.

This was the beginning of Beria's alliance with Malenkov, which later became of central importance.

In December 1944, Beria's NKVD was assigned to supervise the Soviet atomic bomb project (" Task No. 1 "), which built and tested a bomb by 29 August 1949.

In July 1945, as Soviet police ranks were converted to a military uniform system, Beria's rank was officially converted to that of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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.

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.

Beria's decision to avoid immediately calling a doctor was silently supported ( or at least not opposed ) by the rest of the Politburo, which was rudderless without Stalin's micromanagement and paralyzed by a legitimate fear he would suddenly recover and wreak violent reprisal on anyone who had dared to act without his orders.

Support for the assertion that Stalin was poisoned by Beria's associates has been presented from several sources, including Edvard Radzinsky in his biography Stalin and a recent study by Miguel A. Faria in the journal Surgical Neurology International.

Warfarin ( 4-Hydroxycoumarins ) is cited as the likely agent ; it would have produced the symptoms reported, and administering it into Stalin's food or drink was well within the operational abilities of Beria's NKVD.

" These allegations were due to Beria's suggestion to his assistants that to improve foreign relations it was reasonable to transfer the Kaliningrad Oblast to Germany, part of Karelia to Finland, the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to Romania and the Kuril Islands to Japan.

Beria's participation in the Purge of the Red Army in 1941 was classified as an act of terrorism.

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

Beria's bodyguards reported that their orders included handing each girl a flower bouquet as she left Beria's house, with the implication being that to accept his parting gift made her his consensual mistress ; those who refused risked being arrested.

The reversal caused by Beria's arrest and execution brought an end to much of the arbitrary arrest and the system of forced labour in Gulags that had marked the Stalin era.

According to Knight, " Smith noted that Beria's escapades were common knowledge among embassy personnel because his house was on the same street as residence for Americans, and those who lived there saw girls brought to Beria's house late at night in a limousine.

Many of Beria's subordinates, proteges and associates were also arrested, among them Merkulov, Bogdan Kobulov, Sergey Golgidze, Vladimir Dekanozov, Pavel Meshik, and Lev Vlodzimirskiy.

However, Khrushchev and Malenkov were able to gather enough support for Beria's ouster, but only when a rumour of a potential coup led by Beria began to take hold within the party leadership.

Beria's fall also led to criticism of Stalin ; the party leadership accused Beria of using Stalin, a sick and old man, to force his own will on the Soviet Union during Stalin's last days.

Within days of the events in Germany, Khrushchev persuaded the other leaders to support a Party coup against Beria ; Beria's principal ally Malenkov abandoned him.

Beria's sexually predatory nature was well-known to the Politburo, and though Stalin took an indulgent viewpoint ( considering Beria's wartime importance ), he was fearful after learning that his daughter Svetlana was alone with Beria at his house.

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.

" Sarkisov reported that Beria's sexual appetite had led to him contracting syphilis during the war, for which he was secretly treated without the knowledge of Stalin or the Politburo ( a fact Beria later admitted during his interrogation ).

The first page of Lavrentiy Beria | Beria's notice ( oversigned by Joseph Stalin | Stalin ), to kill approximately 15, 000 Polish officers in the Katyn massacre | Katyn Forest and other places in the Soviet Union

After Lavrenti Beria's arrest in 1953, Rudenko was the judge of his trial in which Beria was sentenced to death.

After Stalin's death from pulmonary edema brought on by the stroke, Beria's ambitions sprang into full force.

Based on Beria's own statements, other leaders suspected that in the wake of the uprising, he might be willing to trade the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War for massive aid from the United States, as had been received in World War II.

Many women reportedly submitted to Beria's advances in exchange for the promise of freeing their relatives from the Gulag.

Serov became the Ukrainian Commissar of the NKVD in 1939, and from this point onwards he played a major role in many of the actions of the Soviet secret police in World War II, helping to organize the deportation of the Chechens and the peoples of the Baltic States, becoming Beria's primary lieutenant in 1941.

Early in the 1930s, he obtained Lavrentiy Beria's protection and was able to resume writing, with an attempt at " socialist " novel Stealing the Moon ( მთვარის მოტაცება, 1935-6 ), a story of love and collectivization in Abkhazia.

Mzhavanadze was promoted to lead the Party in Georgia, replacing Beria's protégé Aleksandre Mirtskhulava as First Secretary in September 1953.

Beria's uncompromising ruthlessness in his duties and skill at producing results culminated in his success in overseeing the Soviet atomic bomb project.

Beria's overconfidence in his position after Stalin's death led him to misjudge the feelings of his associates, many of whom still had relatives in his prisons.

Although Beria's name is closely identified with the Great Purge because of his activities while deputy head of the NKVD, his leadership of the organisation marked an easing of the repression begun under Yezhov.

With Stalin's approval, Beria's NKVD liquidated them in the Katyn massacre.

Stalin had begun to encourage Abakumov to form his own network inside the MGB to counter Beria's dominance of the power ministries.

Kruglov and Abakumov moved expeditiously to replace Beria's men in the security apparatus leadership with new people.

Dagmar's operation is a success, but her mother Marta is prohibited from seeing her by the hospital staff.

The passengers were Casis Said Atalah, a Palestinian returning home to Chile from a visit to his dying mother ; Jack Gooderham and Harald Pagh, businessmen ; Peter Young, an agent for the British tyre manufacturer Dunlop ; Paul Simpson, a British civil servant ; and Marta Limpert, a Chilean resident of German origin who had been stranded in Germany during the war along with her husband.

By 1992, the girls had found their new manager, Marta Marrero ( mother of fellow Kids Incorporated alumna Martika ), and a new name: " Wild Orchid ".

* Natasha Porter ( played by Marta DuBois ): Annie and Kevin's deceased mother.

Additional off-Broadway credits include: The Heidi Chronicles, The Road to Mecca, The Vagina Monologues in both London and New York, The Glass Menagerie with her mother, Celadine, a world premiere at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ and the 2006 one-woman play A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, by Marta Góes, which was a Primary Stages production at the 59E59 Theaters.

Since Marzotto group's acquisition of Valentino from HdP group, Matteo Marzotto and his socialite mother Marta Marzotto often join the party.

Born to an Argentine mother, Marta Calvet, and an American father, Johansen lived most of his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, but moved with his family to Buenos Aires at the age of 12.

The recent publication of a Polish-language edition Szyk's biography and public broadcasts of the documentary film " Arthur Szyk-Illuminator " ( Marta TV & Film, Telewizja Polska ( Łódź ), 2005 ) also have improved Szyk's stature in his mother country, Poland.

The film starts with Chaplin meeting Edna ( Edna Purviance ) and her parents in a park ; the mother is played by Marta Golden and the father by Charles Insley.