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What does Cheka mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations, created in 1917.
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The unbeaten middleweight was due to challenge Francis Cheka for the vacant domestic title in Sheffield live on Sky Sports tomorrow night.
These people represent a psychologically homogeneous group, loyal to roots that go back to the Bolsheviks' first political police, the Cheka.
The Cheka has been very lightly raced so the potential for improvement is enormous.
On March 16, armed Cheka detachments stormed the Putilov factories that were defended by workers who had taken up arms. 900 workers were arrested.
Another PRC member, an anarchist named Perepelkin, told his Cheka interrogator that he had been upset by Vilken's prominence in the mutiny.
Each inhabitant had to register with the local Cheka by completing a lengthy investigative questionnaire.

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