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Why tf was Beria not imprisoned? (hexbear.net)
submitted 6 days ago by insurgentrat@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Dude seemed cartoonishly cruel, people knew he was molesting kids.

Any good scholarship on wtf they were thinking leaving him in power and free?

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[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

To play devils advocate (to attempt to show why its really hard for historians to say for sure one way or the other in cases like these): the archives being sealed could also suggest they dont line up with the official narrative, as well as the other reasons i suggested to electric nan.

Yes this is readily apparent, although I think less relevant given the distance between the powers in the russian federation and post stalin ussr. Implicating current oligarchs seems more plausible, or harming the security forces and being too disinterested in truth (especially truth potentially damaging to the russian national character) to bother redacting seems more plausible to me.

The one thing americans do ok at is admitting their crimes... when everyone involved is beyond justice or restitution anyway.