Word: boiko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more startling is the picture that emerges of the Soviet police as either numskulls or brutes. Two unlovely types are the Cheka plainclothesmen: Boiko, with his dimples and "effeminate, rosy cheeks," and Khizhnak, who has a knife scar running from ear to chin and has been known, during an "interrogation." to gouge out the eye of a suspect. Both are murdered by White officers who prove gentlemanly enough to spare the Cossack driver: "Several shots had been sent after him, but evidently more in order to frighten him than to hit him, for he said they whistled high above...