Beria was Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Uncovering The TRUE Depravity of Obscure NKVD Officers
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Embark on a journey through the chilling layers of the NKVD, akin to exploring an iceberg from its tip to its submerged depths. Begin with the notorious actions of Lavrentiy Beria and Nikolai Yezhov, the visible peak of the NKVD's chilling legacy during the Great Purge. Then, venture deeper, unraveling the equally disturbing mid-level operatives before diving into the obscured, deeply sinister characters within the NKVD's history. Hold on for a swift but spine-tingling ride through the darkest echelons of this infamous security force.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
4:20 Tip of the Iceberg - Well-known NKVD Officials and their Atrocities
8:59 Mid-Iceberg - Lesser-known Officials and their Atrocities
13:35 Iceberg Depths - Unknown Officials and their Atrocities
17:55 Deepest Reaches of the Iceberg - Forgotten Officials and their Atrocities
21:50 The Many Tentacled Monster of the NKVD
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@trickydicky2908 4 ай бұрын
"People that can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities". Voltaire
@marcwood2741 4 ай бұрын
Sounds like someone needs to be educated about trans rights
@boxylemons7961 4 ай бұрын
@@marcwood2741 how does this relate to transgender rights?
@CryAboutItLoser419 4 ай бұрын
@@boxylemons7961he's probably talking about the fact that people have been made to believe that transgenderism is normal and are getting people to commit atrocities on themselves by mutilating their genitals.
@TheSkyGuy77 3 ай бұрын
It's absolutely a correct statement. People who can make you believe conspiracy theories, can make you do other evil crap.
@oo.646 16 күн бұрын
@@boxylemons7961 anti-fa/j crying about communist facts.
@indianajones4321 4 ай бұрын
The NKVD and Beria were very evil, portrayed brilliantly in the movie Death of Stalin.
@memofromessex 4 ай бұрын
Great film!
@funsky40 4 ай бұрын
US wasn’t also a “goody two shoes”! They did so many messed up stuff after WW2 and the biggest examples are The Korean and Vietnam wars!
@samuelleal6149 3 ай бұрын
that movie is just * chef kiss*
@itsblitz4437 3 ай бұрын
Well only the Russians didn't like that movie.
@harryhanz1690 10 күн бұрын
A little late, but my Russian neighbor and all his family and Russian friends love that movie.
@Remington510 4 ай бұрын
To add to this iceberg: NKVD and Gestapo/Nazis cooperated before the war. There was a knowledge exchange programme in place that resulted in them learning from one another on how to do their job, track people, interrogate and even kill. The idea of using gas to kill people came from that (you mentioned the trucks, Germany also used those initially but it was too inefficient and expensive when fuel was a strategic resource) also came from this. So the synergy of the two monsters made them stronger. In general, there is a belief that if it wasn't for the fact that Hitler had Stalin and Stalin had Hitler (as allies), none of them would eventually decide on starting the war in Europe... No wonder the Poles go insane when they hear people saying good stuff about either communism or facism. It's like mixing ammonia with bleach...
@sacWeapons 4 ай бұрын
two sides to every story. The Red Army saved us from extermination.
@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING 3 ай бұрын
@@sacWeapons the copium is strong with this one. If Barbarossa never happened, the red army couldn't care less about the world "extermination". I wouldn't even be suprised if the USSR would end up selling its Jewish population off given Stalinist antisemitism
@dudebro91-fn7rz 2 ай бұрын
@sacWeapons yea right, save you from death, just to put you under brutal tyrannical oppression. Some would say that's even worse.
@theguybehindyou4762 Ай бұрын
I’ve even heard that the Soviets were just nazis with far less civility.
@harryhanz1690 10 күн бұрын
There was/is a few million people in Eastern Europe who would like a word with you.
@rexlumontad5644 4 ай бұрын
Iceberg is such a cold name befitting the most sadistic security body of the Soviet Union.
@ivan5595 4 ай бұрын
A iceberg you say hmm
@funsky40 4 ай бұрын
@@ivan5595how about I go “iceberg” on you with lots of lotions 🧴🏳️🌈😃💦
@amorosogombe9650 3 ай бұрын
A monster that even ate its own. Poetic justice.
@stevenverdoliva6217 4 ай бұрын
Felix Dzerzhinsky. Founder of the Cheka. "Iron Felix"
@kazimierzspaczynski7401 Ай бұрын
How about smersh ?
@rexlumontad5644 4 ай бұрын
Crazy that the Soviet Union collapsed in the 90s while North Korea still stands from 50s to 2020s.
@jollygoodyo 4 ай бұрын
If you want things to last, hand the management over to Asians
@ItzJustHistory1916 4 ай бұрын
@rexlumontad5644 The Soviet Union was the first of its kind and as such had only itself and its slaves to support itself with, and it was very dedicated to the isolationism and xenophobia towards other nations that a true communist state usually has (that’s not to say they were true to many of the other principles of communism). North Korea was a pawn and a pet of two superpowers, both China and the Soviet Union, so they had the backing of the entire communist world behind them. Remove the support of the communist world, but leave several dozen nukes behind, add the fact that there’s nothing commercially valuable in North Korea (unlike certain natural resources in say, the Middle East) and the fact that North Korea isn’t actively trying to destabilize any other countries and establish other communist states (like the Soviet Union was), and you have a recipe for why no one has really put any effort into trying to destroy or conquer them. They’re also pretty darn good at brainwashing their people, and they’re right on China’s doorstep, so any attempt at the establishment of a non-communist state there would be taken as an act of aggression and war by China in the exact same way they did during the Korean War
@TheDigitalApple 4 ай бұрын
It’s only standing due to China needing a buffer state from all the other democratic nations in the area.
@chiapets2594 4 ай бұрын
Its not hard when you are a family of lunatic phychotics that got a firm hold on the military. And backup from a bunch of crooked authoritarian and communist countries with nukes to scare off someone from taking you out the history books
@SEAZNDragon 4 ай бұрын
I’m sure a policy of three generations of punishment helps.
@SSD2024 4 ай бұрын
These guys were ruthless.
@theily1724 4 ай бұрын
The two most important things to do when approaching any tragic loss of life is to find out how to exploit it to advance your goals or deny it if it hurts your agenda.
@brokenbridge6316 4 ай бұрын
This was a great look into a deeply murderous and disturbed organization. These men were, truly monsters.
@spudgunn8695 4 ай бұрын
All monsters are human, and more humans have the potential to be monsters than most would like to admit. All they have to do is obey orders.
@brokenbridge6316 4 ай бұрын
@@spudgunn8695---No argument there
@funsky40 4 ай бұрын
@@spudgunn8695Are you willing to “obey” my orders all night long? 😉👨❤️💋👨🛏️
@funsky40 4 ай бұрын
@@brokenbridge6316You ❤️ my 🍌--No argument there 🏳️🌈🥴
@Alan_GA 3 ай бұрын
There was no loyalty amongst these beasts. They were all devoured by each other under the behest of the organisation they slaved for.
@theguybehindyou4762 Ай бұрын
The USSR was a mafia state.
@matthewholehouse2718 3 ай бұрын
There is something very unerving about an organisation that not only would arrest who they believe to be a perpatrator, but also arrested the immediate families of the accused as well for the crime of merely being related to them.
@jamesvoller167 9 күн бұрын
That's exactly what would happen in medieval Europe with the Inquisition. When someone was arrested for witchcraft or heresy their close relatives woukd nearly always be hauled on for torture and "trial" too
@memofromessex 4 ай бұрын
Super interesting. Thanks.
@rexlumontad5644 4 ай бұрын
21:53 So basically they're HYDRA.
@funsky40 4 ай бұрын
And I’m GAYDRA 🥴👨❤️💋👨🏳️🌈💦
@nathanpangilinan4397 4 ай бұрын
12:16 This shows that careerism and ambition, not ideology, was the motivation for this fine (hah) gentleman.
@nemesis7774 4 ай бұрын
Is it just me or is there some mistake with the names appearing on the screen ? Some names seems to appear twice, like of redens which appears at 10:40 and 11:54 (with different titles), but the name of the person after him doesn't show up
@androsbasileus1682 4 ай бұрын
can we get an early life check on these guys?
@VaciliNikoMavich 2 ай бұрын
Can kind of see why Churchill did not trust the Soviets.
@victor256in 2 ай бұрын
He killed as many people through an engineered famine in India (the Bengal famine). He did to India what Stalin did to Ukraine
@VaciliNikoMavich 2 ай бұрын
@@victor256in Well to be fair, Churchill and the British are famous for doing terrible things everywhere they go. Historically proven.
@caseymauldin8396 4 ай бұрын
I can’t help but wonder when Raid will run its course.
@notthefbi7932 4 ай бұрын
Fear and intimidation drives loyalty 😬
@TheSkyGuy77 4 ай бұрын
It drives paranoia and suspicion, not loyalty.
@recoil53 4 ай бұрын
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@CAP198462 4 ай бұрын
Most sadistic state security agency, and you don’t think Stasi? If even half the stories are true, the Stasi would have the NKVD scared.
@jonathanwilliams1065 4 ай бұрын
The Stasi were efficient, the KGB were sadists and perverts
@mercator5484 4 ай бұрын
Do you have a source ? Would love to read about it .
@CAP198462 4 ай бұрын
@@mercator5484 while it is a work of fiction , the German movie “The Lives of Others “ is a not too far off what happened. For more factual information, the channels “The Cold War” and “History Matters” have good videos about the Stasi.
@danv1324 4 ай бұрын
I think Guatemala's Mano Blanca comes close in sadistic. they did the worst most disgusting things to women and children specifically. The worst part is, barely anybody knows about it due to its obscurity.
@vandeheyeric 4 ай бұрын
The Stasi were awful but they were from a very different era in communist tyranny, one that prioritized order, discipline, and a RELATIVE minimum of bloodshed in favor of paranoia and inciting distrust. The NKVD fielded entire divisions of troops and could gas troops, in addition to killing millions. The Stasi were in many ways a pale reflectio nof that.
@t1ll316 10 күн бұрын
All the pictures of Beria where you can’t see his eyes due to those glasses make him seem even more soulless..
@esabria 4 ай бұрын
Any news on the NKVD agents that flayed Andreu Nin during the Spanish Civil War?
@JoeRogansForehead Ай бұрын
Yeah I heard they flayed him during the Spanish civil war
@jamesmccann355 2 күн бұрын
They were far more ruthless than the Gestapo.
@shaiaheyes2c41 14 сағат бұрын
That's true. The Gestapo were angles in comparison.
@BennytheDroid 4 ай бұрын
Wrong name displayed @ 9:17
@jadrankruzic248 4 ай бұрын
Great video congrats. You need to watch satire Death of Stalin and I think it is appropriate ending for this video
@t1ll316 10 күн бұрын
The ordinary German citizen had much less to fear from the Gestapo than a Soviet citizen had from the NKVD. The N*zi police state is largely a myth (not denying any of the racial cleansing ofc)
@jacobhill3302 4 ай бұрын
Ceaucescu would be a neat-o video
@kennkoala 4 ай бұрын
No mention of the FSB, the KGB successor?
@Capracerace 4 ай бұрын
AKA Putin's unit
@jonathanwilliams1065 4 ай бұрын
They have some morals, the kgb had none
@funsky40 4 ай бұрын
@@CapraceraceWanna see my “Unit” HoneyBunz? 😉🍌🏳️🌈👨❤️💋👨
@boxylemons7961 4 ай бұрын
@@jonathanwilliams1065 that kinda goes out the window when you consider the war in ukraine.
@spaceman081447 4 ай бұрын
The FSB is not the only successor organization to the KGB. There's the SVR, the FSO, and the GUSP. The last one is Putin's personal organization for "special tasks."
@Centristlol 3 күн бұрын
I know this is kinda cheating, but the founder of the original MGB, Felix Dzerzhinsky should probably be on this list. That guy was a stone killer.
@TheWedabest 4 ай бұрын
I'm surprised that Iron Felix wasn't on the list?
@lukejohnston4666 4 ай бұрын
This is focusing on NKVD... Iron Felix was Cheka
@TheWedabest 4 ай бұрын
@lukejohnston4666 he was. Other organizations were mentioned throughout the video, so I found it a little odd not to include him. It was one organization replacing another.
@lukejohnston4666 Ай бұрын
@@TheWedabest you are correct.
@shaiaheyes2c41 14 сағат бұрын
NKVD was called the Cheka under Felix Dezerzhinsky. Today it's called FSB, which the KGB's Putin was the head of.
@leylayetmez 4 ай бұрын
His one of the deadliest islands are Artyom(pirallahi) in Baku. There are plenty skulls and skeletons here
@theguybehindyou4762 Ай бұрын
What makes it dangerous?
@leylayetmez Ай бұрын
@@theguybehindyou4762 lots of dead bodies. Writers artists and poetress actress sculptures.
@theguybehindyou4762 Ай бұрын
@@leylayetmez It a dumping ground for bodies?
@leylayetmez Ай бұрын
@@theguybehindyou4762 no its graveyard
@Johnnycdrums 14 күн бұрын
I believe it was Gregory Malenkov who orchestrated Beria's demise. After all, he was the big fat jolly brainiac of the five.
@LegalesePodcast 3 ай бұрын
Beria did not create the Gulag system. That was created by Lenin more than a decade before Beria took control of an already well-established system of prison camps
@jeffclark7888 Ай бұрын
Correct. The Solivetsky Islands prison in 1921 started the GULAG.
@LegalesePodcast Ай бұрын
@@jeffclark7888 exactly right .. cannibal Island
@jeffclark7888 Ай бұрын
@@LegalesePodcast Get “em.
@warmonger8799 22 күн бұрын
@user-rc9ew3ky6n 20 күн бұрын
Seems to me it was more dangerous to be in the NKVD.
@danfrancis2707 7 күн бұрын
Genrikh Yagoda. Responsible for the deaths of millions. J-wish
@454FatJack 3 ай бұрын
Nikolai Jesov, Felix Dersinsky etc z people
@ivan5595 4 ай бұрын
Dmitry Yazov
@imperialg.s6453 4 ай бұрын
The communist cat thumbnail tho ,Man cats do be controlling everything
@indianajones4321 4 ай бұрын
Hey Geetsly’s, I recently started to make history and alternate history videos on KZfaq and would really appreciate any advice/feedback you could give me
@piotr5338 28 күн бұрын
You do not know why Beria was kilked by Khryszczowv?
@agelessrequiem3859 4 ай бұрын
These guys sound like the Sith.
@arthas640 4 ай бұрын
The empire was heavily based on nazi and Soviet imagery.
@BillyBOB-sm3rl 4 ай бұрын
I think they needed more vitamin D. They were simply mad.
@viborgvee8399 3 ай бұрын
You might be onto something…
@beltigussin81 3 ай бұрын
Most people know of the KGB if you're of a certain age.
@-JA- 4 ай бұрын
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@AJdet-2 7 сағат бұрын
The Soviet Union had the KGB.. That ain't nothing,.. The United States has the IRS 😢
@chipchilinkachip910 4 ай бұрын
Okay, that Комитет Государственной Безопасности pronunciation was butchered beyond belief.
@MRbeqa100 29 күн бұрын
Beria and Stalin two Georgians have created the Soviet Union and gave nuclear weapons
@unnamedchannel1237 4 ай бұрын
Music made it really hard to listen to what was being said
@Huskerguy316 4 ай бұрын
The bottom half of the ice berg are almost all J E W S
@fazole 4 ай бұрын
The mafia are almost all Italian. Does that mean all Italians are mafia? The ones you refer to are a sect.
@oo.646 16 күн бұрын
@@fazole You mean Sicilian. SOUTHERN Italian, VASTLY different from the North.
@eddy_malouempereur_du_cong6536 4 ай бұрын
To remind you what to think of the ruzzians, they concider those guys as heroes
@victor256in 2 ай бұрын
NKVD is an organization straight out of an Stephen King novel with an Orwellian background
@JoeRogansForehead Ай бұрын
I think i would’ve liked to be a low level nkvd officer . Not high enough to get attention but still can tell others what to do. Sounds sweet . I’ll take my dacha too please
@runaway_slav 4 ай бұрын
There seems to be a shared characteristic between most of the featured men; besides the bolshevism, its something about those surnames that indicate certain religious upbringings, can't quite place it, maybe it is just mere coincidence, who truly knows?
@rohsnaoks1587 3 ай бұрын
Do you mean they were predominantly J-s? Even though J-s were the minority in Russian territories
@phann860 3 ай бұрын
What exactly are you implying? A few names maybe but most were Russian.
@oo.646 16 күн бұрын
It's amazing how a minority can hold as many positions of power as they do.
@jeffclark7888 Ай бұрын
Multiple mistakes in this video.
@bouchacourtthierry8506 3 ай бұрын
Judeo bolchevism NKVD until Stalin replace them with Slavic Russians.
@shaiaheyes2c41 14 сағат бұрын
Yughashvili didn't replace them with Slavic Russians.
@chedabu 4 ай бұрын
This is just an extension of Russian culture. It goes all the way back to the Oprichnik
@jonathanwilliams1065 4 ай бұрын
If you believe that there is no god, and therefore no morals, you become capable of anything
@spaceman081447 4 ай бұрын
Nonsense! You theists are capable of anything in the name of your god.
@krzysztofkosmakosinski8009 Ай бұрын
Beria wanted to dismantle the USSR right after Stalin's death. He also wasn't a sexual sadist and hated both Stalin and his methods. His portrait in this video if simply re-telling lies his comrades invented after his trial, like there was no one to help him overthrow the highest command - Zhukov wanted to start a coup earlier but Beria stopped him, believing in his good fortune. This was probably one of the most important decisions in the XX century. Also during Beria's 100 days, he released over a million prisoners from Gulags.
@TheIvanMilky 4 ай бұрын
Yea these guys were utter scum, but you know what gets me - people think the CIA are/were any different 😂😂
@arthas640 4 ай бұрын
Not good, but they are better. Their goal is American interests and American defense, and they've killed a fraction of the number of their own citizens then the NKVD/KGB. The KGB controlled Stasi were considered every bit as bad as the SS, only more competent. Hell the US made its rocket scientists wealthy while the man who helped run the Soviet space program died due to injuries he sustained being tortured by the NKVD/KGB, and many who worked om their space program did so from research gulags
@jaybunting-tx7nd 4 ай бұрын
I agree, didn't even think of them assholes, your 100percent correct
@funsky40 4 ай бұрын
Guys! Stop discussing these violent stuff and let’s just all make ❤️ together 😉👨❤️💋👨🌈💦💧
@johnbrown8570 4 ай бұрын
Just like the CIA
@shaiaheyes2c41 14 сағат бұрын
Far from it, pidor.
@bifurtthorrin4972 4 ай бұрын
You can make the exact same video with the CIA :)
@shaiaheyes2c41 14 сағат бұрын
No, you cannot. Go figure.
@bifurtthorrin4972 14 сағат бұрын
@@shaiaheyes2c41 You're right. The CIA is far worst.
@TheVkaz 4 ай бұрын
what about usa ??
@shaiaheyes2c41 14 сағат бұрын
What about it?
@nilsmadej9091 4 ай бұрын
Great heroes who stooped to the darkest depths of humanity to keep the light of it's salvation bright! Without their sacrifice of their humanity many innocent would either have to soil their hands with the same work or would have to face the oppressors that they kept away.
@phann860 3 ай бұрын
You are joking surely.
@fredflinstone6601 4 ай бұрын
Mostly members of the tribe
@ivan5595 4 ай бұрын
Well you can say it's a iceberg 🏔️
@jonathanwilliams1065 4 ай бұрын
No they weren’t Beria in particular was Georgian like Stalin
@fredflinstone6601 4 ай бұрын
@@jonathanwilliams1065 they were
@ivan5595 4 ай бұрын
Look up what Stalin's name meant
@jonathanwilliams1065 4 ай бұрын
@@ivan5595 it means steel But that’s not his birth name
@xxxxxx-ow2hp 29 күн бұрын
Human animals...excuse the oxymoron. This has nothing to do with 'Russian' but more so the levels that humanity can sink to. It is very, very low.
@ThePatriarchXCI91 4 ай бұрын
I mean sure but the fact that you don't portray any of their US equivalents (which were just as bad) says that you are just biased.
@emperorkane317 4 ай бұрын
But that has nothing to do with this video. Why would he go off topic and talk about the US when the video is obviously about the Soviet Union? I think you are the one with the bias
@Nostripe361 4 ай бұрын
If you want to see a video on the cia then ask for one instead of claiming bias. Also be harder as most CIA agents stayed out American political conflicts and focused on stuff like coups and assassinations instead.
@jonathanwilliams1065 4 ай бұрын
The US equivalents might have their problems but they don’t come close to the KGB
@sharky7002 4 ай бұрын
Goes onto a video that specifically talks about the Soviet Union and the nkvd and the fucked up shit they did Proceeds to bitch and moan about the video not talking about the us of a
@shaiaheyes2c41 14 сағат бұрын
America has never been as bad as Russia. Russia is literally a level of hell, she's cursed.
@Dreddwinner 3 ай бұрын
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