[Boogieman]

Yes, but the Soviets didn’t actually invent that... they just co-opted the Tsarist secret police apparatus and gave it even more power and authority.

[SpaceBar]

Hitler also noted how the world nary blinked over the Armenian genocide by the Turks.

[dfwgator]

The Okhrana. Yep, pretty much the Soviets just co-opted the Czars’ infrastructure and put it under new management.

[ought-six]

“Yes, but the Soviets didn’t actually invent that... they just co-opted the Tsarist secret police apparatus and gave it even more power and authority.”

That’s true. The Okhrana were the Tsarist secret police.