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True or False, After the death of Joseph Stalin Lavrentiy Beria became the new head of the Soviet Union

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Answer is False. After the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev became the new leader of the Soviet Union. Lavrentiy Beria was a Soviet politician who briefly served as the head of state security.
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Answer: False

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Beria wasn't next in line after the death of Stalin.

He became secretor of the Union in 1938

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