If Beria hadn't been killed and served as Head of the USSR?

[LBJ Revivalist]

Let's say Beria wasn't killed in 1953 and ended up heading the Soviet Union...How do you think history wouldve differed?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Beria would be worse than Stalin was.

[Хahar 🤔]

Given that Beria was, well, Beria, it's hard to imagine a situation where the other members of Stalin's inner circle wouldn't have taken him out.

[ag]

Who knows. But he would have had to start w/ a big purge at the top - or he would have been killed )

[J. J.]

Beria would be worse than Stalin was.

Actually, Beria ended some of the anti-Semitic policies of Stalin abd wanted to liberalize the Soviet Union.

We might have seen Glasnost and Perestroika thirty five years before we did.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beria#Postwar_politics

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Beria would be worse than Stalin was.

Actually, Beria ended some of the anti-Semitic policies of Stalin abd wanted to liberalize the Soviet Union.

We might have seen Glasnost and Perestroika thirty five years before we did.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beria#Postwar_politics

Beria was a mass-murderer responsible for many of the crimes of the Stalin era.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Beria would be worse than Stalin was.

Actually, Beria ended some of the anti-Semitic policies of Stalin abd wanted to liberalize the Soviet Union.

We might have seen Glasnost and Perestroika thirty five years before we did.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beria#Postwar_politics

Beria was a mass-murderer responsible for many of the crimes of the Stalin era.

Yes, but he carried out Stalin policies. Doesn't mean he'd be rule like Stalin. Adress actual questions please.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Beria would be worse than Stalin was.

Actually, Beria ended some of the anti-Semitic policies of Stalin abd wanted to liberalize the Soviet Union.

We might have seen Glasnost and Perestroika thirty five years before we did.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beria#Postwar_politics

Beria was a mass-murderer responsible for many of the crimes of the Stalin era.

Yes, but he carried out Stalin policies. Doesn't mean he'd be rule like Stalin. Adress actual questions please.

I addressed the question. Beria was a cruel SOB in his own right, and in power he would have been worse than Stalin, as I said.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Beria would be worse than Stalin was.

Actually, Beria ended some of the anti-Semitic policies of Stalin abd wanted to liberalize the Soviet Union.

We might have seen Glasnost and Perestroika thirty five years before we did.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beria#Postwar_politics

Beria was a mass-murderer responsible for many of the crimes of the Stalin era.

Yes, but he carried out Stalin policies. Doesn't mean he'd be rule like Stalin. Adress actual questions please.

I addressed the question. Beria was a cruel SOB in his own right, and in power he would have been worse than Stalin, as I said.

Unlikely as he recognized the absurdities of the Stalin system (despite being a key part of it). He was planning to open up the economy, derecognize East Germany and ask for American international aid when he was killed in 1953 so things might have turned out very different had he lived. And what ag said is of course true here.