I don’t know if the name Lavrenty Beria still sends cold chills up the spines of younger Americans, but in the 1960s-70s it scared the hell out of most of us. He was Stalin’s most ruthless hatchet man. Stalin introduced him to FDR at Yalta as “Our Himmler.” It looks to me like Trumka is trying out for Obama’s American version of the Beria/Himmler role.
After Stalin died you know what happened to Beria don’t you?
A lot of conjecture that Beria poisoned Stalin, because he caught wind of Stalin planning to purge the entire Politburo....then Khrushchev had Beria killed soon after he took power.