Beria was the one that ended the Gulag system, although Khruschev took credit for it. He also wanted to decentralize the economy and was rather neutral as to the form of government that vassal/allied states to the USSR should take. He was also the one who first set about discrediting Stalin (something else Kruschev took credit for).
--- On Sun, 5/10/09, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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