Lavrentiy Beria: Difference between revisions

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He would later also orchestrate [[Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush|the forced upheaval of minorities from the Caucasus]] as head of the NKVD, an act that was declared genocidal by various scholars and, as concerning [[Chechens]], in 2004 by the [[European Parliament]].<ref name="Europarl" />{{sfn|Courtois|2010|pp=121–122}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Werth|first=Nicolas|author-link=Nicolas Werth|year=2006|title=The 'Chechen Problem': Handling an Awkward Legacy, 1918–1958|volume=15|issue=3|doi=10.1017/S0960777306003365|journal=Contemporary European History|pages=347–366|s2cid=145083075|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/the-chechen-problem-handling-an-awkward-legacy-19181958/02BB3A7E00C4134FB36CE698F7F478BF}}</ref>{{sfn|Williams|2015|p=67}}<ref>{{cite book| last=Jones|first=Adam|author-link=Adam Jones (Canadian scholar)| title=Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction|edition=revised| publisher=Routledge |year= 2016 |isbn= 978-1317533856 | page=203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0kBZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA203}}</ref> He simultaneously administered vast sections of the Soviet state, and acted as the ''de facto'' Marshal of the Soviet Union in command of NKVD field units responsible for [[barrier troops]] and [[Soviet partisan]] intelligence and sabotage operations on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]. Beria administered the expansion of the [[Gulag]] labour camps, and was primarily responsible for overseeing the secret detention facilities for scientists and engineers known as {{lang|ru-latn|[[sharashka]]s}}. After the war, Beria oversaw the [[Soviet atomic bomb project]], which Stalin gave absolute priority to, and the project was completed in under five years.<ref name="US DOE" />