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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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  • Francis Cheka (born Francis Boniface Cheka on April 15, 1982 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a Tanzanian professional boxer and the current World Boxing...
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    executions in Soviet Russia carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. It officially started in early September 1918...
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    December 1991. As a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKGB, NKVD and MGB, it was attached to the Council of Ministers...
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    Felix Dzerzhinsky (category Cheka officers)
    death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the Bolshevik regime...
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  • 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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    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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    Brest-Litovsk. Left SRs continued to work in other organizations (notably the Cheka), denouncing the treaty and the policy of requisitioning grain from the...
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  • 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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    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;...
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    Mat Kilau who fought against the occupants once near Kampung Hulu Cheka at Ulu Cheka, Jerantut, Pahang. He was born in Kampung Sempiat, Benta, Mukim Tanjung...
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    assassination of Makhno by Cheka agents. Anger at continued repression by the Bolshevik Communist government and at its liberal use of the Cheka to put down anarchist...
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  • Cheka is a state constituency in Pahang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Pahang State Legislative Assembly. According to the federal gazette...
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    Sports Society "Dynamo" as a sports organization of Soviet secret police Cheka. On 13 July 1925 the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)...
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  • Ulu Cheka is a small village in Jerantut District, Pahang, Malaysia. v t e...
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    against Counter-Revolution (1918-1920) Extraordinary Commissions of the Cheka (1920-1921) State Political Department (1922-1934) Main State Security Department...
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    Yakov Yurovsky (category Cheka)
    Yurovsky worked as a head of local Cheka in Moscow, then a member of Vyatka Cheka, head of Yekaterinburg Cheka (1919). In 1921, he worked in the Rabkrin...
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  • the Soviet government and now houses many other people. Yevgraf, now a Cheka officer, tells Yuri his poems have been condemned as anti-communist. Yevgraf...
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    Accordingly, throughout Soviet Russia the Cheka carried out killings, often in large numbers. For example, the Petrograd Cheka executed 512 people in a few days...
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    the killing was a "patriotic act". In 1918, Vladimir Lenin ordered the Cheka to arrest Elisabeth. They then exiled her first to Perm, then to Yekaterinburg...
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    Federative Socialist Republic. He strongly supported Lenin's formation of the Cheka security service and the subsequent Red Terror that it initiated; noting...
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    Jēkabs Peterss (category Cheka officers)
    the Cheka, the secret police of the Soviet Russia. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Cheka from 1918 and briefly the acting Chairman of the Cheka from...
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    had removed them from the Ipatiev House in May, they had been shot by the Cheka with a group of other hostages on 6 July, in reprisal for the death of Ivan...
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    plan and was enforced by regular troops and the secret police known as Cheka. Those who resisted were arrested and deported to gulags and work camps...
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    against the Democratic Republic of Georgia in early 1924. Red Army and Cheka troops, under orders of the Georgian Bolsheviks Joseph Stalin and Sergo...
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    Moscow. Reilly disappeared in Soviet Russia in the mid-1920s, lured by the Cheka's Operation Trust. British diplomat and journalist R. H. Bruce Lockhart publicised...
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    Guard organization and a core soldiery of Red Guard militiamen and the Cheka secret police. Conscription began in June 1918, and opposition to it was...
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    Presidium of the Cheka Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Martin Latsis and secretary B.M. Futoryan. On November 1, 1920, the Special Department of the Cheka issued a conclusion...
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    therein. Later, the Bolsheviks recaptured the Cheka headquarters at the Lubyanka and overcame the Cheka Combat Detachment commanded by Left SR Dmitry...
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    attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918. Born into a Jewish family, Kaplan served a sentence of hard labor...
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