Cheka: Predecessor to KGB and the first Soviet state security organizations.
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage [Russian: Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем; Vserossijskaya Chrezvychajnaya Komissiya]
In 1918 it became All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Profiteering and Corruption.
The Organization Underwent A Series Of Name Changes Until Finally Being Named The More Notorious KGB/КГБ (Committee for State Security/Комитет государственной безопасности) in 1954.
The Cheka is reported to have practiced torture. Victims were skinned alive, scalped, "crowned" with barbed wire, impaled, crucified, hanged, stoned to death, tied to planks and pushed slowly into furnaces or tanks of boiling water, and rolled around naked in internally nail-studded barrels. Chekists poured water on naked prisoners in the winter-bound streets until they became living ice statues. Others beheaded their victims by twisting their necks until their heads could be torn off. The Chinese Cheka detachments stationed in Kiev reportedly would attach an iron tube to the torso of a bound victim and insert a rat into the other end which was then closed off with wire netting. The tube was then held over a flame until the rat began gnawing through the victim's guts in an effort to escape. Denikin’s investigation discovered corpses whose lungs, throats, and mouths had been packed with earth.
Women and children were also victims of Cheka terror. Women would sometimes be tortured and raped before being shot. Children between the ages of 8 and 16 were imprisoned and occasionally executed
Organic Paranoia · Fri Jul 11, 2008 @ 08:30am · 0 Comments
