Beria

15 clues
Late KGB chief
Stalin's top cop
Comrade Lavrenti.
Late Russian V.I.P.
V.I.P. under Stalin
N.K.V.D. chief, once
Stalin's police chief
Feared name in Russia.
One of Stalin's cronies
Lavrenti of the Kremlin.
Liquidated Russian: 1953
Soviet secret police chief
Purgerof Stalin's opponents
Communist leader from Georgia
Head of Soviet secret police, 1938-53