Beria After the War

Question 1

1. What did the NKVD do to the 1.5 million Soviet prisoners of war after they were liberated in 1945?
   - What did Stalin view these men as?
2. What was the event where Stalin launched a purge against officials in the Leningrad Party called?
   - How many party members were arrested and forced to confess to crimes against the Party?
3. Between 1952 and 53, many of Stalin’s medical staff were arrested:
   - What were they arrested for?
   - What may have been a factor in their arrests?
   - What was this event called?

Answer 1

1. Interrogated them.
   - Traitors.
2. The Leningrad Affair.
   - 200.
3. • Trying to poison Stalin.
     - Anti-Semitism.
     - The Doctors’ Plot.

Question 2

1. What happened to Beria 3 months after Stalin’s death? (3)

2. His death was the symbolic end to what?

Answer 2

1. Arrested by the NKVD and executed for treason and terrorism.
2. Stalin’s policy of terror.