For the uninitiated. And no, it’s not like CIA, MI6, etc – much worse.
> Ostensibly set up to protect the revolution from reactionary forces, i.e., “class enemies” such as the bourgeoisie and members of the clergy, it soon became the repression tool against all political opponents of the communist regime. At the direction of Lenin, the Cheka performed mass arrests, imprisonments, torture, and executions without trial. They policed labor camps, ran the Gulag system, conducted requisitions of food, put down rebellions and riots by workers and peasants, and mutinies in the Red Army. … Historian James Ryan gives a **modest** estimate of 28,000 executions per year from December 1917 to February 1922. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka)
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For the uninitiated. And no, it’s not like CIA, MI6, etc – much worse.
> Ostensibly set up to protect the revolution from reactionary forces, i.e., “class enemies” such as the bourgeoisie and members of the clergy, it soon became the repression tool against all political opponents of the communist regime. At the direction of Lenin, the Cheka performed mass arrests, imprisonments, torture, and executions without trial. They policed labor camps, ran the Gulag system, conducted requisitions of food, put down rebellions and riots by workers and peasants, and mutinies in the Red Army. … Historian James Ryan gives a **modest** estimate of 28,000 executions per year from December 1917 to February 1922. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka)
And I haven’t even touched the “[Atrocities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka#Atrocities)” section….
Glory to the KGB heroes who risked their lives to help liberate Europe from Hitlerite fascism!
[Happy Chekist Day!](https://i.imgur.com/r5LhWEf.jpg)
A bloody terrorist organization like the Gestapo. Shame on this shit!
We should not forget that CheKa have been founded by Pole – Feliks Dzierzynski.