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Just click the link in the show description to support now. Oh, Welcome to the serial killer podcast. The podcast dedicated to serial killers, who they were, what they did and how, episode 218.

I am your humble host, Thomas Rosaland Weiburg Thune.

And tonight I bring to you a classic T-S-K episode.

It's standalone and it covers a man that I'm pretty certain have not been talked about as a serial killer in the media ever.

The definition of a serial killer that I use in this podcast is a person who murders three or more people

with a significant cooling-off period between each kill.

When it comes to Russian history, the first names that usually come to mind would be

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Khrushchev.

Lenin, the controversial revolutionary who forged a communist superpower,

Trotsky, the intellectual lynchpin of the revolution, who was murdered and became a martyr to the cause.

Stalin, the paranoid tyrant who terrorized his own people would help defeat Hitler.

Krothev, the brash-called warrior who almost helped usher in the end of the world during the Cuban

missile crisis. One person that is seldom talked about is

Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria. He was a Georgian, like Stalin, who called him my Himmler. Involved in revolutionary activities from his teens and head of the secret police in Georgia in his 20s he supervised

the ruthless 1930s purges in the

bloodthirsty dwarf, the bloodthirsty dwarf,

head of the Soviet secret police.

He soon succeeded Jehov, who was shot on Stalin's orders, apparently at Beria's

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