This meant that the article had to be amended. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, issued since 1926, had a positive article on Beria that was now an embarrassment.
Stalin had just died, and Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, the chief of Stalin’s secret police, had fallen out of favor. In response to an event in the Soviet Union in 1953 George Orwell wrote, “He who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the future.” He was referring to an incident that involved a strategic adjustment to a book.
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