Word: cheka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Consternation! Nuntia is the popular name for Germany's most secret, most unmentionable police organization. It is as unmentionable as Russia's famed Cheka. The embarrassed judge hastily dismissed the witness, adjourned court for three days...
Leaping from their seats two white clad internes picked up a stretcher and rushed into the Bureau of the Union State Political Department, notorious as the "Cheka" or O. G. P. U., the dread police-spy service of the Soviet Union...
...thrown bombs. Now a wall of the O. G. P. U. building gaped with a great jagged hole. As the white clad stretcher bearers rushed within, a crowd of ambulance chasers gathered speculatively upon the pavement. Perhaps they would see the great V. G. Menzhinsky, Chief of the "Cheka," carried forth, maimed and bleeding upon a strip of canvas stretched between two poles...
Four days later the prestige of the 0. G. P. U. was further upheld by the execution of five of the engineers recently sentenced to Death at the great Shahkta Trial (TIME, July 2; July 16). "Cheka" agents had assembled the evidence on which they were convicted. Soldiers attached to the O. G. P. U. fired, last week, the five final volleys...
...first quotation might have been the remark of an imbecile or an ignoramus who hated professors. The second formed the prelude to a portion of the speech in which II Duce dealt with the widespread rumor that his police are a veritable tsar's cheka. He said: "It was necessary to weed out police, especially the plain clothes police. . . . When police are in plain clothes and have not the check of uniform they must be composed of picked men-zealous and silent citizens...