From the Beria wikipedia article: In 1993, construction workers installing streetlights unearthed human bones near Beria's Moscow villa (now the Tunisian embassy). Skulls, pelvises and leg bones were found.[90] In 1998, the skeletal remains of five young women were discovered during work carried out on the water pipes in the garden of the same villa.[91] In 2011, building workers digging a ditch in Moscow city centre unearthed a common grave near the same residence containing a pile of human bones, including two children's skulls covered with lime or chlorine. The lack of articles of clothing and the condition of the remains indicate that these bodies were buried naked.
The Soviets were really big on rewriting history and they spent a lot of time editing photos of stalin with people that later fell out of grace.
But I'm sure he was a bad person indeed. I don't think you could rise to such a position without being one until the lighter age appeared that led to Gorbachev.
And that getting your coworkers killed was a standard part of office politics in that job.
I know all the soviet leaders of that era were mass murderers but usually by delegation only.
Edit: I read up on it and it does indeed seem true. Wow..
I guess the same thing applies if your job is being a manipulator, murderer, and genocidal maniac?
Didn't they all have second homes aka dachas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha)?
It looks like they have pretty big yards, at least in this random Wikipedia picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:E7159-Kstovo-industrial-r....
Khrushchev memoirs were not official Soviet history, they were recorded by him after he had fallen from grace and was living in house arrest as a retiree, later smuggled out to the West by his friends. You can read them and judge for yourself how candid they are. Of course he might paint himself in a more favourable light than somebody else would, that's expected. But your comment comes off as both rude and ignorant – unless I'm mistaken and you are of such a superior intellect that you can pass quick judgement on any historical happening without having to bother yourself with the sources.
But I do see some corpses have actually been found and it was corroborated by multiple sources. I wouldn't consider Kruchchev a reliable source either though for the reasons mentioned. But some other one syes.
Like I said it was just my personal feelings on the subject and this is not an encyclopedia but a discussion forum. We don't always have the ability to do a full study on each subject. And I never said I was an authority on it.
The difference between cultist and reality, is if the finger is being pointed in the right direction and to the right degree.
The texture doesn't have enough bite to it and the flavour is really bland.
There are pointers to a lot of additional documentation in here too [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_cannibalism#CITEREFKin...], including from the Holodomir.
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