to `53, he
was -- yeah, he was -- and -- he was in his 30s. And then they tried to get his false teeth out.

LAMB: We have a picture of Vasily.

MONTEFIORE: There he is, there he is, the crown prince as he was known by all the inner circle.

LAMB: By the way, hold the false teeth story, because while you`re on him just for a moment,
what was the Mayday story when he was fired because of the bombers?

MONTEFIORE: He was grossly overpromoted. He really was ridiculously spoiled. Half-
terrified, half a complete bully. Typical mixture, dictator`s son. He was sort of Uday, the Uday of Saddam
Hussein of the regime, if you like.

And he was drunk; he was a general of the Air Force. And he had -- he was-- they were just a group
of sort of degenerates, essentially. And Vasily Stalin was the classic. And it wasn`t for nothing they called
him the crown prince.

LAMB: Let me read from the death chapter. Once it was proved that he was incapacitated, Beria,
quote, "spewed forth his hatred of Stalin," end quote. But whenever his eyelids flickered or his eyes
opened, Beria, terrified that he would recover, quote, "knelt and kissed his hand like an oriental -- what is
that? Vizier?

MONTEFIORE: Vizier, yeah.

LAMB: At a sultan`s bedside."

MONTEFIORE: That`s right, that`s right.

LAMB: But you have a couple of occasions in here when Beria -- when his eyelids were closed,
he`d think he was dead, he would start screaming hatred to him.

MONTEFIORE: Yeah. I mean, he`d say -- you know, he was basically sort of