Series: Guards of RussiaName: Lavrentiy P. BeriaOrigin: Hong KongIssuer: Mega Power Hong Kong Group LimitedMinted by: Mega Power Hong Kong Group LimitedDesigner: Iren Ter SarkisyanWeight: 31,1 grStandard: Ag 999Diameter: 45 mmFace value: DollarMintage: 400Year: 2013ObverseLavrentiy P. Beria. (1899-1953) was a Soviet state andpolitician and statesman, Chief Security Administrator(1941), Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Hero ofSocialist Labour. He was a very controversial person – abrilliant organizer, the head of intelligence service andcounter-intelligence of the USSR during WWII, thehead of the Soviet Atomic Bomb Project and the SovietSpace Program. At the same time he was a curator ofconcentration camps of the USSR He restructured theintelligence and counter-intelligence service, policefrom revolutionary type institutions to those that lookedlike modern institutions of law-governed states. Hesubstantially eased repressions in the USSR.From 1941Beria became Deputy Chairman of the Council ofMinisters (Council of People's Commissars till 1946)of the USSR, after Stalin's Death (March 5, 1953) hebecame the First Deputy of Chairman of the Council ofMinisters of the USSR. On June 26, 1953, Beria wasarrested and accused to espionage for UK and otherWestern counties and he was incriminated a plot aimedat usurpation of power. On December 23, 1953 Beriawas shot by sentence of Special Court of the SupremeCourt of the USSR .ReverseCoat of Arms of the USSR on the shield – one ofsymbols of law enforcement agencies

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