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August 8

On this day in 1941, the Luftwaffe launched its famous "thousand-bomber raid" against Moscow, leaving half the city in ruins and killing a third of its population. Among the casualties: NKVD secret police chief Lavrenti Beria, who died when a German bomb scored a direct hit on his office in Dzherzinsky Square.

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