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Noun: Lavrentiy Beria
  1. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953)
    - Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria

Type of: captain [US], police chief

Encyclopedia: Lavrentiy Beria