Episode 2

S1 E2: By August 1949, at least five years earlier than expected, the USSR became the world's second superpower, thanks to its spies who had stolen America's atomic secrets. But by March 1953, Stalin is dead and KGB chief, Lavrentiy Beria, wants to run the Soviet Union. But Nikita Kruschev has Beria is arrested, tried in secret for working with the enemy, and executed.