I don't think there's much doubt anymore that Beria was a reformer. He was the one who started to shut down the Gulag system, not Khrushchev. I don't see why it would be an odd notion. The idea is not incompatible with Beria's other notorious qualities.
--- andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Oddly enough, some scholars think that Beria did
> too.
>
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