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cheka
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Cheka is a reggaeton artist from Guayama, Puerto Rico . He was born in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn , New York , where he lived 10 years until moving with his parents to Guayama, Puerto Rico , their native town. In the island he started singing with the hopes ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early Soviet secret police, 1921, from Russian initials of Chrezvychainaya Komissiya "Extraordinary Commission (for Combating Counter-Revolution);" set up 1917, superseded 1922 by G.P.U.
Usage examples of cheka.
He was murdered by the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police, in June 1918, a month ahead of the rest of the royal family.
Lenin appointed him the first chief of the Cheka, or Bolshevik secret police.
Soon after their seizure of power, the Bolsheviks unleashed a campaign of mass terror, encouraging the workers and the peasants to denounce their neighbours to Revolutionary Tribunals and the local Cheka, or political police.
Nikolai Gumilev was arrested by the Petrograd Cheka, jailed for a few days, and then shot without trial on charges, which were almost certainly false, of belonging to a monarchist conspiracy.
Fuehrer, against war, against boss rule, peace with the Church, free expression of opinion, an end to the Cheka terror, restoration of justice, reduction of contributions to the party by one half, no more building of palaces, housing for the common people and more Prussian probity and simplicity.
Russia, descendant of the MVD, the NKVD, and OGPU, the Cheka - the Cheka alone might have been necessary.
They took the center lane, the lane of the privileged, straight down Mira Prospekt, around the square past the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who, under Lenin himself, headed the Cheka, the forerunner of the KGB.
The old Cheka eliminated two politicals hi a similar manner for symbolic reasons in 1930.
The KGB - Beria's gift to Russia, descendant of the MVD, the NKVD, and OGPU, the Cheka - the Cheka alone might have been necessary.