And the The Welcome to Russian History Retold, Episode 176, The Hinchman under Khrushchev and Stalin part one.

Last time I covered the controversial figure of Trofim Lysenko.

This week I will cover the two Soviet leaders who allowed him to spread his pseudo-scientific malarky.

You may be wondering why I'm merging the two leaders.

Well, this is going to be a different podcast, as I'm not going to go into much depth on either

Cruistia or Stalin, as I already did that quite a while back.

As the podcast title suggests, I'm going to cover the relationship of the henchmen to their leaders, especially when serving under Stalin.

The men I will look into will be Laverenti Beria, Nikolai Bulganen, Lazar Kaganovich, Georgi Malenkov, Anastas

Mikoyan, Vyachislav Molotov, Mikhail Suslov, Clement Vorashilov, and Andres Jodinov.

At a later date, I may undertake full podcasts in some of these men like Beria, Kaganovich, Molotov, and Vorosilov.

These nine men personally signed the death warrants of millions upon millions of people.

They had little to no compunction of sending relatives, sons, daughters, wives, to

gulags or to the prison hell known as Lubyanka. They also might have all died had

not Joseph Stalin passed away from a stroke in 1953. Only Lavrenti Beria was killed of that group.

I'm going to cover them in alphabetic order, so as no other honor of any kind be given to them, even posthumously. They were cruel, paranoid, and butchers of various

degrees. They served during the great terror, the great patriotic war, known to the West asotic War II.

These men also lived under constant fear for their own lives,

sacrificing others so that they might survive.

The first one we'll talk about. so that they might survive.

The first one we'll talk about, maybe the most depraved of all, Lavrenti Beria.

His name is burned in my memory as my mother would spit on the ground and yell,

Bist ya, any time his name was mentioned.

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