The Cheka was short-lived, from 1917 to 1922. It morphed into the OGPU, which morphed into the NKVD. The Russians loved their secret police, until they didn’t.
75 posted on 06/11/2023 5:51:18 PM PDT by ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )