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...that on August 12 Marshal Tukachevsky, following a plan worked out by a Tsarist general in 1831, circled Warsaw to the North; SimeonBudenny,with the Red Cavalry, had taken Lwow; a third force was ready to encircle Warsaw from the South; Dzerzhinsky, Polish-born nobleman, ruthless organizer of the Cheka, waited outside Warsaw to spring the uprising of the Warsaw proletariat...
...Stalin's purge he wrote: "For all its horrors, a glittering light plays over the scenes and actors of the French Revolution. . . . But the Russian Bolsheviks are not redeemed in interest even by the magnitude of their crimes. . . . They have emerged from the prison cells of the Cheka to make their strange unnatural confessions to the world. They have met the death in secret to which they consigned so many better and braver...
...narrowly intelligent, new Commissar Beria is tall, heavyset, fond of speechmaking and public appearances. Not so uncouth as his predecessor, Laurentius Beria, despite a more polished exterior and pince-nez, can be just as bloodthirsty and relentless, has been a professional man hunter since his first assignment to the Cheka soon after the Bolshevik Revolution...
...people of Leftist Spain, according to Mr. Baron, resent their Government's "arbitrary use of censorship for the political advantage of those in control," and "dislike the reign of terror by secret police, informers and spies of the Communist Cheka...
...Commissar Yakovleva, 52, is an Old Bolshevik, a veteran of the bloody fruitless days of 1905, who was exiled to Siberia under the Tsar. After the 1917 revolution she did valiant service in the ruthless Cheka, the pre-Ogpu secret police, gradually rose to be Vice Commissar for Education and finally Russia's first and only female Finance Commissar...