Word: cheka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Baltic states and has in this way reached very sane conclusions as to the character of the Bolsheviks. One of the most dramatic incidents was his appearance before "Simanova, the Merciless", the most dreaded woman in all Russia and chief of the foreign division of the Cheka, the secret society whose acts of terrorism have horrified the world. "You must always lie in the Cheka", said Mr. Eaton, "for if you tell the truth they will take...
...most interesting incidents during his stay in Russia which he will relate will be his appearance before the most dreaded woman in all Russia, called by her followers "Sinova, "the Merciless." As chief of the foreign division of the Cheka, a secret society which has perpetrated many acts of terrorism, she has made her name one of the most feared in Russia...
Said Cyril: "The Cheka's attempt to repress opposition will be accompanied by a new reign of terror in Russia, but it is too late. The seed of discontent is sown, and 85% of the population are tired of Bolshevism. A revolt against the Soviet is a question of only a short time. . . . The people have suffered enough and both laborers and peasants are longing for a new regime. There will be shooting without discrimination again, but the spirit of revolt will conquer in the end. I am convinced, after reports from the most reliable agents inside Russia, that...