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From the outset this new body was termed the more pronounceable Cheka. Headed by Felix Dzierżyński, a hard-bitten Polish revolutionary, the Cheka cultivated an elite mystique. Its operatives ...

Iryna Tsybukh, 25, who went by the alias Cheka, was a combat medic with the Hospitallers volunteer battalion. She was killed in action on 29 May 2024. This interview was published on 14 May 2024. One ...

Hundreds of thousands of Russians disappeared into interrogation stations and prison camps of the feared Cheka and its successors, never to emerge alive. Not surprisingly, as the Soviet Union was ...

Thus the Premier will directly appoint the officers of his new cheka or political police. Hand in glove with this organization will work Secretary General Augusto Turati of the Fascist Party.

The Soviet Union's initial secret-police force, the Cheka, unleashed a wave of executions and torture in the years right after the revolution of 1917 that became ...

That abbreviation -- pronounced "cheka" -- produced the word "chekist" to refer to anyone who served in security forces, including the notorious NKVD under Stalin and the KGB during the later ...

Leafing through 14-year-old Cheka Mendis’s new book Smoke and Mirrors, I was impressed- here is something more than a teenager being tempted to emulate Harry Potter or Anthony Horowitz. Smoke and ...

Young Cheka Mendis makes a triumphant comeback with Fire through Glass after Smoke and Mirrors, the adventure novel that won him a State Literary Award in 2020 when aged 14. Cheka has obviously grown ...

One random comedian, eight random questions; it's the ultimate test of funny person and fate. This week we welcome reigning Funny Women Awards winner Kate Cheka, who brings her debut show, A Messiah ...

Francis Cheka has promised to silence the hype surrounding "India's golden boy" Vijender Singh when the pair meet next month. Singh's impressive amateur career has so far translated well into the ...