On this date, December 23, 1953, the NKVD Chief, Lavrentiy Beria and six of his henchmen: Vsevolod Merkulov, Bogdan Kobulov, Sergey Goglidze, Vladimir Dekanozov, Pavel Meshik, and Lev Vlodzimirskiy were executed by firing squad in Moscow, Russia.
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| Lavrentiy Beria |