Cheka
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Cheka see secret police .
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The Cheka, G.P.U. and O.G.P.U.: Bolshevism's early secret police.(All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage, State Political Directorate, and Unified State Political Directorate)
National Observer - Australia and World Affairs; 12/22/2001; Stove, R.J.; 3689 words;
... Cheka had been. Cheka prisons were always called Cheka prisons; the later organisations renamed them houses ... when hauled into Dzerzhinsky's presence after a Cheka tip-off, berated his captor with making the Cheka an indiscriminate agent of hangings and shootings ... not, and as he himself ...
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Duma Blocks Return of Cheka Founder's Statue, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia); 7/11/2000; Ana Uzelac; 609 words;
... Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The larger-than-life statue of Dzerzhinsky - the creator of the infamous Cheka, the ruthless Soviet political police which evolved into the NKVD and later the KGB - dominated Lubyanskaya Ploshchad in front ...
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The Secret History of the KGB.
Insight on the News; 10/4/1999; Waller, J. Michael; 2577 words;
... address celebrating the 82nd anniversary of the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police that preceded ... headquarters of the former KGB, paying homage to Cheka founder Feliks Dzerzhinsky. Putin's salute to the Cheka legacy was a carefully crafted image-builder ...
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Mingled biographies and mangled lives: Isaac Babel--a first glance.(Book Excerpt)
Midstream; 9/1/2005; Charyn, Jerome; 3779 words;
... a communal pit. Neither Stalin nor his Cheka bothered to tell anyone, and the myth of ... campmates who swore he was still alive. The Cheka itself manufactured these tales. It was ... pronounced a person again, though the Cheka persisted in giving him a phony death date ...
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SHCSB dancers score a grand slam victory in Singapore.(Society)
Manila Bulletin; 8/12/2006; 1436 words;
... discipline. Awarded the Perpetual Trophies were: Cheka Cabreza - Professional Classical Ballet ... all the classical ballet solo category: Cheka Cabreza in Girls Professional Category ... Solo (Girls) gold with Perpetual Trophy - Cheka Cabreza; silver - Gabby Quinto; bronze ...
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Panamanian is keen to coach Scottish boxers
Evening News - Scotland; 8/26/2002; BRIAN DONALD; 244 words;
... post of Scottish national coach. "Bernard Cheka was legendary Belfast promoter Barney Eastwood ... selection committee but a guy with Bernard Cheka's track record would automatically command ... was coaching. We need somebody of Bernard Cheka's experience and skill to help re-establish ...
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Putin puts terror chief back on a pedestal in Moscow.(Vladimir Putin, Felix Dzerzhinsky)
The New American; 12/12/2005; 332 words;
... first head of the Soviet Union's dreaded secret police, the Cheka, forerunner of the KGB. In 1918, he launched the massive campaign ... Russian FSB. He has made the birth date of Dzerzhinsky's infamous Cheka, December 20, a day of national celebration as Security Organs ...
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BORIS LODZ ; Oldest living Soviet spy
The Independent - London; 1/6/2007; Rupert Cornwell; 530 words;
... the Trust") was created in 1921 by the Cheka, the original Bolshevik state security ... who was perceived by Felix Dzerzhinsky, Cheka's founder, as one of his most dangerous ... prison, headquarters of the OGPU (as the Cheka was now called). There Reilly was interrogated ...
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Books: Ace of Spies? More like a Joker Iron Maze: The Western Secret Service and the Bolsheviks by Gordon Brook-Shepherd Macmillan pounds 20
The Independent - London; 12/6/1998; John Crossland; 879 words;
... the author has shown how the Soviet secret police, the Cheka, used the incident in which a young Social Revolutionary ... hard hit-men of revolution who formed the backbone of the Cheka, and had assassinated the Imperial family. Colonel Edward Berzin, who approached Lockhart with the news that the Latvian ...
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MEGATON REGGAETON with IVY QUEEN, BABY RASTA & GRINGO, CHEKA, 90 MILLAS, JULIO ACOSTA, SUCIO, INSTINTO BORICUA AND BOODAH When: 8 tonight Where: Aragon, 1106 W. Lawrence Tickets: $28.50 Phone ...
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(book reviews)
The New Leader; 6/6/1994; Shub, Anatole; 1718 words;
BORN IN MELITOPOL, Ukraine, in 1907, Pavel Sudoplatov followed an older brother into the Cheka at the age of 14, moved up to the Moscow OGPU in 1933, and performed secret NKVD missions in Western Europe in the mid-1930s. Under ...
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Iron Feliks' fall: Toppling an icon of the high priest of Soviet terror
The Boston Globe; 8/25/1991; H. D. S. Greenway, Globe Staff; 576 words;
... Dzerzhinsky -- "Iron Feliks" -- was the founder of the feared Cheka, Lenin's secret police, which specialized in state terror and ... to have Iron Feliks in bronze come clattering to earth. The Cheka grew out of the czar's secret service, the Okhrana, and, according ...
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In Russia, people shrug at Litvinenko's death
The Spectator; 12/2/2006; Polonsky, Rachel; 1135 words;
... Dzerzhinsky, first head of its predecessor, the Cheka. The KGB is chic; so is its successor ... few months after the founding of the Cheka. President Putin would not put it like ... seems, the security services -- from the Cheka through the OGPU, NKVD and KGB to the ... the pantomime dramaturgy of the evening ...
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Teaching Children Mathematics; 1/1/2002; Ameis, Jerry A.; 1991 words;
... children in solving mathematical problems: Cheka saw the woomer first. Her hand signals warned Plasto to be ready for trouble. Cheka spoke to the woomer, Hello friend. How ... What village do you come from? Luckily, Cheka remembered seeing a village name on the ...
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Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 2/11/2008; 262 words;
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