Russian Secret Police Pt. 5 Beria’s NKVD

Imagine a state apparatus of terror; they monitor citizens, they kidnap people in the middle of the night, they torture people to extract false confessions. Now imagine that same state apparatus of terror is run by a murderous pedophile. That was the Soviet people's reality with appointment of Lavrenti Beria to the dreaded People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs or the NKVD, the Soviet secret police.

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Music

Scorching Action by Jon Presstone

Tension in the Dark by Jon Presstone

Gnosienne by Eric Satie performed by Neil Cross and Raighes Factory

It’s Beginning to Look A lot Like Christmas by Perry Como (a parody)

Mozart K.488 Piano Concerto #23 in A 2nd mov. Adagio

Cinematic Ambient Orchestral Drama Trailer by MEDIA MUSIC GROUP

Electra to the Baltic Sea by Giuseppe Rizzo

Dramatic Investigation by Jon Presstone

Sad Smooth Piano Jazz Background Music by Volodymyr Piddubnyk

Eye Of The Storm (Feat. Cicely Parnas) - Instrumental Version Humans Win

Kalahari Wind by Humans Win

Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod

Giant Wyrm by Kevin MacLeod

Selected clips from The Death of Stalin (2017)