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I was reading the Wikipedia page on Lavrentiy Beria (I'm not going to pretend to be knowledgeable on the USSR here because it's not warranted) and found it hilarious that he was such a terrible person. Apparently he was a serial rapist, and if his victims resisted they would be buried in his wife's garden. According to Kruschkev's memoirs, he also spat on an unconscious Stalin after the guy had a stroke. Sometimes reality is stranger than anything it would be acceptable to come up with in fiction.

In OTL he was given a show trial and executed after Stalin's death. How could history be changed in a way that would get Beria long-term in charge of the USSR following Stalin's death instead of Khrushchev and Co.? What happens with such a giant piece of shit in charge of one of the world's two superpowers?
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