Бериевская амнистия 1953 года. Что это было на самом деле?

What was the real story behind the 1953 amnesty, long called either Voroshilov's or Beria's? And why are people increasingly trying to portray Lavrentiy Beria not as an executioner, but as an effective technocrat and even a reformer? In this issue, we examine one of the most dangerous historical myths of recent years. Why did the amnesty after Stalin's death only appear humane at first glance? Who did it affect, and who was it barely touched? What was happening inside the Gulag by the early 1950s? And could Beria have used the amnesty as part of a larger power play? Support our work: Make a one-time donation (1,000 rubles): https://u.to/t37nIQ Make a standing payment (300 rubles): https://u.to/-H7nIQ Make a standing payment (500 rubles): https://u.to/MX-nIQ Make a standing payment (1,000 rubles): https://u.to/aX-nIQ Buy merch https://ozon.ru/t/bepddwW and here http://t.me/LLCNewSalesBot/Catalog Read our texts here https://novayagazeta.ru YouTube has slowed down, subscribe to our video channel on Telegram http://t.me/nomediarussia For advertising inquiries on the channel, write to [email protected] The YouTube channel "NO.Media from Russia" is a project of independent journalists who have remained in Moscow Timecodes: 00:00 A funny story from a radio quiz 01:01 Breaking news about the possible remains of d'Artagnan 02:03 What is known about the discovery and why it's too early to draw conclusions 03:17 Why too good a provenance also raises questions 04:25 Genetics, legends, and historical hoaxes 06:20 The latest jokes about d'Artagnan 07:40 Transition to the main topic of the episode 08:07 March 26, 1953 Beria's Note on Amnesty 08:50 Why the Amnesty Was Called Voroshilov's, and Then Beria's 09:20 How the Myth of Beria as a Technocrat Is Born Today 10:18 Where Does the Image of an "Efficient Manager" Come From? 11:27 Why Individual Facts Don't Explain the Whole Picture 12:08 Who and How is Constructing the New Myth of Beria Today 12:50 Fake "Beria Diaries" and the Mechanism of Historical Forgery 14:28 Why the Amnesty Project Was Clearly Prepared in Advance 15:12 What the Amnesty Appeared Like at First Glance 16:01 Whom It Was Proposed to Release 17:08 How Many People Were Covered by the Amnesty 17:50 Why Political Prisoners Were Almost Not Covered 18:05 Was There Humanity in It? 18:38 What Was Happening in the Gulag System by 1953 19:28 Cancel The death penalty and the rise of camp violence 20:13 Professional criminals and the breakdown of order in the camps 20:26 "Bitch war" and internal terror 21:08 What to read about the camps and the "bitch war" 21:42 Why Beria wanted to remove the GULAG from the Ministry of Internal Affairs 22:19 An administrator, not a humanist 22:29 Optimization of the camp system as a motive 22:38 The struggle for power after Stalin's death 23:11 The theory of destabilization to strengthen Beria's position 24:37 Where historical speculation begins 25:09 What Beria's son wrote and why it is not evidence 25:37 Could Beria first create chaos and then "calm it down"? 26:22 Why we may never know all the details 27:09 A logical error: Beria cannot be turned into an abstract "X" 27:36 Comparison with Eichmann and the "Banity of Evil" 29:16 Why Beria Was More Than Just an Executor 30:06 Georgia, Terror, and Beria's Career Rise 31:07 Why Beria Received the Atomic Energy Project 31:59 Efficiency Without Humanism 32:06 How Beria's Theme Appears in Today's Textbooks 33:34 The Finale, the Journal, and Editorial Support 34:12 A Joke About Internet Disconnection and Paper Books 35:03 The "New Normal" and Farewell