Word: cheka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig began the trial of 16 Communists, alleged to be members of the German Cheka,* charged with fomenting revolution in Germany...
...work. Officially, he was charged with the murder of one Rausch, a barber who had turned traitor to the German Bolsheviki. In his testimony, he admitted lying in wait several times for General von Seeckt, present head of the Reichswehr, because the Cheka had decided that he "must not only be wounded but killed, since otherwise we shall simply be making a mess of things." He and other comrades, Neumann said, had also discussed ways and means of killing the late Hugo Stinnes, because the Cheka had ordered his "elimination." He admitted having received personally $1,000 from the Soviet...
...Cheka, an extraordinary commission sitting under the Bolshevik regime to try political prisoners...
...trial in which the accused were convicted prisoners, the witnesses convicted prisoners, the spectators convicted prisoners, was held in a prison at Leningrad. The accused, 23 of them, were charged with attempting the murder of a prison mate whom they declared was an agent of the dread Cheka, or revolutionary tribunal...
Last week, peasants passing along a certain road beheld 15 cassocked figures doing manual labor under an armed guard supplied by the thoughtful Cheka. The peasants were ashamed, went to their village, killed all the Bolsheviki they could lay hands upon...