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Cheka

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Cheka

Secret police operating in the USSR between 1917 and 1923. It originated from the tsarist Okhrana (the security police under the tsar from 1881 to 1917), and became successively the OGPU (GPU) (1923–34), NKVD (1934–46), MVD (1946–53), and the KGB from 1954.

The name is formed from the initials che and ka of the two Russian words meaning ‘extraordinary commission’, formed for ‘the repression of counter-revolutionary activities and of speculation’, and extended to cover such matters as espionage and smuggling.



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From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Russian security apparatus Cheka (and its later permutations: OGPU, NKVD, MGB, KGB) had been the "sword and shield" of the communist world revolution.
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The NKVD, like the Cheka before it and the KGB after it, operated throughout the USSR and surely should be identified as the Soviet secret police.
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During eight days of interrogation, he was brought face to face with Dzershinsky, the founder of the Cheka himself.
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