Word: cheka
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...sweep of dancing children to join the admiration of the miracle which Isadora's art had conjured?then the music swelled and a mystic and dramatic dance began. Among the children was noticed a little blonde eight-year-old girl, Mary Peters, daughter of Karl Peters, Chief of the Cheka, or the Robespierre of the Russian Revolution. Her little red tunic was "like a drop of blood in the spotlight " ?a reminder of another side of Communism...
...Jordania states that in one day the Bolsheviki executed 200 people, by order of the Cheka, without trial. The victims included women and children. Most of the men killed were of the educated classes...
...Cheka, now unearthing crimes 17 years...
Lieutenant Stevraki of the former Imperial Navy was sentenced to death by the Cheka, the extraordinary commission instituted by the Soviet Government to carry on the gruesome business of 'Bolshevik justice...
...tribunal which will now take the place of the Cheka is a criminal court, in which many Communist features are still retained. There will be two jurors who will sit beside the judge and the fate of the prisoners brought before them will be decided by a vote of these three...