Sergo Beria

The late Sergo Beria grew up as first among the Kremlin's elite where a deceptively jovial calm papered over total violence. He chose a neutral engineering career and was one of the people who briefed Stalin on the advantages of nuclear technology, a career that he was allowed to continue after his father's death at the hands of Khrushchev.

The late Sergo Beria grew up as first among the Kremlin's elite where a deceptively jovial calm papered over total violence. He chose a neutral engineering career and was one of the people who briefed Stalin on the advantages of nuclear technology, a career that he was allowed to continue after his father's death at the hands of Khrushchev. See less