Word: cheka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happened was not known, but happen it did, apparently some time ago. Into Pecherskaya Monastery at Kiev went agents of the drab Cheka (Russian euphemism for High Court of Justice) ; right up into the belfry went they and discovered $400,000 worth of treasures. Then they came down, arrested 15 high ecclesiastics...
...short blue knickers; English Communists from the Clyde, dressed in sombre Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman in an ample gray cloak over which were slung cartridge bandoleers, a sword-belt holding many silver...
...more than usual interest. The author, a young American who has lived some years in Russia, has caught all the swift horror of those cataclysmic days, has limned his plot against a background that rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor of the Imperial Court ?the whole shot through with the sharp truths of racial contrast and alien heritage...
...Frankfurter sausage containing a little powdered glass and a few cholera germs was the appetizing dish said to have been planned for Hugo Stinnes by the so-called German Cheka-but Stinnes' death (TIME, April 21) foiled the Red plot. In Paris, it was persistently declared that the "King of Coke" had committed suicide. For the first time since the French occupation of the Ruhr, President Ebert is to visit the occupied area. The occasion is the Cologne Industrial Fair. Herr Penfick of the National Liberal League and Professor Meyer, "another politician," have testy tempers. Penfick attacked Meyer...
Davidov, member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, was sent to Stavropol, Ciscaucasia, to investigate the execution of hundreds of peasants by the Cheka, former secret political police, for resisting tax-collectors. Davidov was just leaving a meeting in the local Soviet, after endorsing the Cheka's policy, when his brains were dashed out by an axe wielded by the son of one of the Cheka's victims...