By 1921 tens of thousands of people had been executed by the various Cheka groups, which had risen drastically in numbers and in the fighting units of the Red Army tens of thousands of members of the Cheka targeted a variety of perpetrators, ranging from associates of the old Tsarist regime, the clergy, landowners and the rich. This post was brought to you by James, currently studying Russian at Liden & Denz. // You won't find this word in, Hi, Beloved community! The Russian Civil War had started a month earlier, and anti-Bolshevik uprisings were increasing rapidly.

The Russian Civil War had started a month earlier, and anti-Bolshevik uprisings were increasing rapidly.

It is interesting to witness the crossover of power and police in Russia over the 20th century, and its legacy lives on in Vladimir Putin, who once said to his ex-colleagues at the FSB (Federal Security Service), “A group of FSB operatives, dispatched under cover to work in the government of the Russian federation, is successfully fulfilling its task.” Although tongue was firmly in cheek with this comment, the connections between secret police and state in 20th century shaped the government’s control of political foes significantly. The Best Burger in Moscow: Part III My final burger recommendation from my time in Moscow is a little more unusual. The Cheka was the first of numerous Soviet government apparatuses created to control the people – others being later organisations such as the OGPU and the KGB. Fixed in their minds at all times was Lenin’s mantra; that it was better to arrest 100 innocent people than to let one guilty person free. Today we ask you to help us, In the early XIXth century the Russian poet Andrey, Our campuses OPENED to face-to-face Russian lesson, Where these photos have been taken? The secret police made their own arrests, convictions and sentences all under the watchful eye of Lenin.
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This led to what became know years after as the ‘Red Terror’, and while in theory the Cheka were bound to operate within the letter of the law, in practice this was not the case; the Cheka ended up ruling as judge, jury and invariably executioner. The Cheka is sometimes referred to as the Bolshevik ‘secret police’, though most Russians were well aware of its existence and activities. Many groups followed after, and the secret police continued into the 1990s in the form of the KGB (the Committee for State Security). The Cheka was used by Vladimir Lenin to consolidate his power after the November 1917 Revolution.