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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...
- 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...
- executions in Soviet Russia carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. It officially started in early September 1918...
- direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD. Attached to the Council of Ministers, it was the chief...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Chinese served as bodyguards of Bolshevik functionaries, served in the Cheka, and even formed complete regiments of the Red Army. It has been estimated...
- 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;...
- Brest-Litovsk. Left SRs continued to work in other organizations (notably the Cheka) while denouncing the treaty and the policy of requisitioning grain from...