In this deep dive into Soviet history, we uncover the horrifying truth about Lavrentiy Beria, the most evil man in the USSR and Joseph Stalin’s ruthless chief of the Soviet secret police. As the head of the infamous NKVD (the direct precursor to the KGB), Lavrentiy Beria was the calculating mastermind behind the Great Purge, aggressively expanding the brutal Gulag labour camp system and orchestrating the executions of countless innocent people. Who exactly was this depraved monster that even a dictator like Stalin genuinely feared?