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Following Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, in which Beria may have been implicated, Beria was appointed First deputy Prime Minister, and ranked second in the Soviet hierarchy under his ally [[Georgy Malenkov]]. However, [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and [[Nikolai Bulganain]] won Malenkov over to their proposals to depose Beria following the 1953 uprising in [[East Germany]]. Beria was arrested in June 1953, and was executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953.  

Following Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, in which Beria may have been implicated, Beria was appointed First deputy Prime Minister, and ranked second in the Soviet hierarchy under his ally [[Georgy Malenkov]]. However, [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and [[Nikolai Bulganain]] won Malenkov over to their proposals to depose Beria following the 1953 uprising in [[East Germany]]. Beria was arrested in June 1953, and was executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953.  

Beria was an [[Atheism|atheist]].

Beria was an [[Atheism|atheist]]. In addition, one of his more notorious actions as a rapist was, after arresting a woman and releasing her after raping her, gives her a bunch of flowers, the implied threat being that she either treat the affair as consensual (accept the flowers), or otherwise be arrested and "disappeared."