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Chekist

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Chekist
a member of the Russian secret police (1917-1922) called Cheka.
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Krasnaya Gazeta, the Bolshevik newspaper, expressed the Chekist credo when it reported approvingly in 1918 of the terror campaign: "We will make our hearts cruel, hard and immovable, so that no mercy will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at the sight of a sea of enemy blood.
Putin's Russia: the return of the iron fist by Jasper, William F. / The New American
Operations chekist teams and patrols did an effective job.
Lessons of the Great Patriotic War: combating subversion and ... by Kiselev, V.A. / Military Thought
For example, the Ballerina uses the veil to drag the head of either Chekist (her lover-enemy) or possibly John the Baptist (a reference to a ballet she dances).
The Theater of Boris Eifman: fantasies of a dreamer by Alovert, Nina / Dance Magazine
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