VECHEKA

Meaning of VECHEKA in English

byname Cheka the first Soviet political police agency and earliest forerunner of the Kgb (q.v.).

Britannica English vocabulary. Английский словарь Британика. 2012

CHEKA — — Chekist , n. /che"kah/ , n. (in the Soviet Union) the state secret-police organization (1917-22), succeeded by the GPU. …
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KGB — Russian in full Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), political police and security agency that was also the primary …
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CHEKA — also called Vecheka, early Soviet secret police agency and a forerunner of the KGB (q.v.).
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