What is Lavrenty Beria?
{{Infobox officeholder | birthname = Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria | image = Lavrenti-Beria.jpg | caption = Beria in 1939 | citizenship = | nationality = [[Soviet Union|Soviet]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]n | office = [[First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union]] | term_start = 5 March 1953 | term_end = 26 June 1953 | premier = [[Georgy Malenkov]] | predecessor = [[Vyacheslav Molotov]] | successor = [[Lazar Kaganovich]] | office2 = [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)|Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union]] | rank = [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] | term_start3 = 25 November 1938 | term_end3 = 29 December 1945 | term_start2 = 5 March 1953 | term_end2 = 26 June 1953 | predecessor2 = [[Sergei Kruglov (politician)|Sergei Kruglov]] | successor2 = [[Sergei Kruglov (politician)|Sergei Kruglov]] | office4 = First Secretary of the [[Georgian Communist Party]] | term_start5 = 14 November 1931 | term_end5 = 18 October 1932 | battles = Russian Revolution (1917-1923), Russian Civil War (1917-1923), Polish-Soviet War (1918-1921) [[World War II]] (1939-1945), Korean War (1950-1953) | term_start4 = 15 January 1934 | term_end4 = 31 August 1938 | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1899|03|29}} | birth_place = [[Gulripsh District|Merkheuli]], Sukhum Okrug, Kutais Governorate, [[Russian Empire]] (Today : Georgia) | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1953|12|23|1899|03|29}} | death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] (Today : Russia) | party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1917-1953) | spouse = [[Nina Gegechkori]] | awards = [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] | signature