Cheka

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History and politics

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What Wikipedia says

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, abbreviated as VChK (Russian: ВЧК IPA: [vɛ tɕe ˈka]), and commonly known as the Cheka (Russian: ЧК IPA: [tɕɪˈka]), was the first Soviet secret police organization.

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