When was Lavrentiy Beria executed?
22nd December 1953
23rd December 1953
24th December 1953
25th December 1953
Answer
Lavrentiy Beria was executed on the 23rd of December 1953, after being arrested and accused of treason and other crimes. He had been a close ally of Joseph Stalin, but after Stalin's death in 1953, Beria was seen as a threat to the new leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. He was executed by firing squad, and his body was buried in an unmarked grave.
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