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Who was the longest-serving and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs?

  • Nikita Khrushchev

  • Georgy Malenkov

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Lavrentiy Beria

Answer

Lavrentiy Beria was the longest-serving and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs. He was in charge of the NKVD from 1938 to 1953 and was responsible for the Great Purge, in which millions of people were killed. He was also responsible for the Soviet atomic bomb program and was a close confidant of Stalin. After Stalin's death, Beria was arrested and executed in 1953.
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