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Ok, here a dystopic question: Considering that against all odds, Beria becomes the leader of the Soviet Union, how would such state look like, and how it would develop different from the Kruschevist Soviet Union?

First of all, one condition I want to stabilish is that Beria is prepared for Stalin's death, let's not go for the conspiracy theories that he killed stalin or anything, but on this scenario he knows for a while that Stalin might be dead soon, and this allows him to pull enought resources, man and planning in taking over the State, and so at the death of Stalin he manages to use his huge wibe to overmanouver his enemies and take over the government, also purging Kruschev, Malenkov and others.

Another point is that this Beria holds the power until the end of his "sane" life, or to put more simple, he was born in 1899, let's say that he can commands the government before his capacity to lead gets seriously crippled on the mid-late 1970s, that means that we have a NKVD state that will last from 1953 until somewhere on the 70s. What are the butterflies on the cold war, and does this Soviet Union endures longer or less time than the OTL soviet union?
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