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abbreviated as VChK (Russian: ВЧК, IPA: [vɛ tɕe ˈka]), and
commonly known as the
Cheka (Russian: ЧК, IPA: [tɕɪˈka]), was the
first Soviet secret police organization...
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Soviet Russia which was
carried out by the Bolsheviks,
chiefly through the
Cheka, the
Bolshevik secret police force. It
officially started in
early September...
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direct successor of
preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the
Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD.
Attached to the
Council of Ministers, it was the chief...
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Francis Cheka (born
Francis Boniface Cheka on
April 15, 1982 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a
Tanzanian professional boxer and
Cheka resides in Morogoro...
- from
February 1922 to
November 1923. It was the
immediate successor of the
Cheka, and was
replaced by the
Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). The official...
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Directorate and of the
Cheka, was
appointed as the OGPU's
first chief. The
OSNAZ (ОСНАЗ), a
militarised section of the
Cheka, had
originated in 1921;...
- Revolution,
created by
Vladimir Lenin's
decree on
December 20, 1917, was
called "
Cheka" (ЧК).
Officers were
referred to as "chekists", a name that is
still informally...
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Chinese served as
bodyguards of
Bolshevik functionaries,
served in the
Cheka, and even
formed complete regiments of the Red Army. It has been estimated...
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death in 1926, he led the
first two
Soviet secret police organizations, the
Cheka and the OGPU,
establishing state security organs for the
Bolshevik government...
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Cheka is a
state constituency in Pahang, Malaysia, that has been
represented in the
Pahang State Legislative ****embly.
Ethnic breakdown of
Cheka's electorate...
