Cheka in a sentence

After last month’s general election, MCA has been left with only one MP, its deputy president Wee Ka Siong who was narrowly elected in Ayer Hitam, Johor, and two assemblymen, in Titi Tinggi, Perlis, and Cheka, Pahang.

A member of Cheka was called a "chekist".

As the Russian Civil War expanded, Dzerzhinsky also began organizing internal security troops to enforce the Cheka's authority.

At 7 p.m., Yurovsky summoned all the Cheka men into his room and ordered them to collect all the revolvers from the outside guards.

At the direction of Lenin, the Cheka performed mass arrests, imprisonments, and executions of " enemies of the people ".

Director of Cheka Lenin regarded Felix Dzerzhinsky as a revolutionary hero and appointed him to organize a force to combat internal threats.

During the Red Terror the Cheka carried out at least 250,000 summary executions of " enemies of the people " with estimates reaching above a million.

Fanya Kaplan shot and wounded Lenin triggering the " Red Terror " - the Cheka implicated all malcontents in a grand conspiracy that warranted a full-scale campaign.

For example, he refutes the claim made by Latsis that only 22 executions were carried out in the first six months of the Cheka's existence by providing evidence that the true number was 884 executions.

G. Maximoff) In response to the anarchists' resistance, the Cheka orchestrated a massive retaliatory campaign of repression, executions, and arrests against all opponents of the Bolshevik government, in what came to be known as " Red Terror ".

However, within a month, the Cheka had extended its repression to all political opponents of the communist government, including anarchists and others on the left.

In addition, border security Chekas were included in the system of local Cheka bodies.

In Moscow a Left SR uprising was put down by the Bolsheviks, using Cheka military detachments.

In the course of a few months, Dukes, Hill and Reilly succeeded in infiltrating Lenin’s inner circle, and gaining access to the activities of the Cheka and the Communist International at the highest level.

Many thousands of dissidents, deserters, or other people were arrested, tortured or executed by various Cheka groups.

On 20 December 1917, the Council of People's Commissars officially established the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-revolution and Sabotage—usually known as the Cheka (based on the Russian acronym ВЧК).

One of the first founded was the Moscow Cheka.

On June 12, 1918, the All-Russian Conference of Cheka adopted the Basic Provisions on the Organization of Extraordinary Commissions.

On March 7, 1918, because of the move from Petrograd to Moscow, the Petrograd Cheka was created.

Originally, the members of the Cheka were exclusively Bolshevik ; however, in January 1918, the Left SRs also joined the organization Schapiro (1984).