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Cheka

Soviet secret police

Also known as: All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combatting Counterrevolution and Sabotage, VCHEKA, Vecheka

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Also called:: Vecheka

Cheka, early Soviet secret police agency and a forerunner of the KGB (q.v.).