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Topic: Vecheka

	Cheka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Actually called the Vecheka (ВЧК), it was created on December 20, 1917 and headed by Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy.
		Vecheka stands for All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем).
		After early attempts by the west to intervene against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War, great paranoia gripped the Soviet leadership and the Cheka.
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/cheka.html (287 words)

	Lenin: Proposals Concerning the Work of the Vecheka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Vecheka department dealing with complaints and requests to expedite cases should be expanded immediately.
		{3} On the basis of Lenin’s proposals the commission decided to instruct the People’s Commissariat for Railways together with a representative of the Vecheka to revise the regulations governing the Transport Department of the Vecheka in respect of non-interference by the Vecheka in the commissariat’s technical and management functions.
		On the question of the relationships between the Vecheka, the Railway Cheka (Transport Department of the Vecheka) and the Commissariat for Railways see the draft decision of the Council of Defence (pp.
	www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1918/dec/03a.htm (392 words)

	Cheka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Actually called the Vecheka (ВЧК) it was created on December 20 1917 and headed by Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky.
		Vecheka stands for All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution and (Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия по борьбе с и саботажем).
		After early attempts by the west to against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War the Soviet leadership and the Cheka convinced that there was a wide ranging of foreign enemies and internal counter-revolutionaries.
	www.freeglossary.com /Vecheka (475 words)

	russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Vecheka was very much an ad hoc organization, whose powers gradually grew in response to various emergencies and threats to Soviet rule.
		Although the tsarist political police was ruthless and unscrupulous, the police organs established by Vladimir I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917, known as the Vecheka, far surpassed their predecessors in terms of terror and violence.
		The Bolsheviks allowed the Vecheka almost unrestricted powers to persecute those who were perceived as "class enemies." This set the stage for the development of the brutal Stalinist police state, in which millions of innocent victims perished at the hands of the political police, controlled by Joseph V. Stalin.
	beyondheroes2.tripod.com /russia.htm (5617 words)

	Prisoners of Zion
		The Vecheka and its agents, the Chekists, had been waging a campaign of Red Terror against the real and imaginary opponents.
		The Zionist organization arrested by Vecheka was actually a part of the Paris Peace Conference; its delegates attended meetings with Lloyd George and others.
		Those Russians and foreigners who had survived the Vecheka’s “vigorous investigations” were either executed, sent to the concentration camps, or annihilated in some other way.
	www.jewishmag.com /26MAG/RUSSIAN/russian.htm (1457 words)

	Lenin: Rough Draft of a Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on the Vecheka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lenin: Rough Draft of a Decision for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on the Vecheka
		[1] In view of the country’s transition to peaceful economic construetion, Lenin proposed the reorganisation of thd Vecheka.
		Lenin’s ideas were embodied also in the Resolution on the Vecheka passed by the Ninth All-Russia Congress of Soviets on December 27, 1921.
	www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1921/dec/01.htm (194 words)

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		The Vecheka controlled the budget and annual objectives of the subordinate local chekas.
		Vecheka, who could easily prosecute members of his own organization for suspected acts of
		The Vecheka disappeared from existence on 6 February 1922,
	www.angelfire.com /ma/crossedsabers/cheka.html (4613 words)

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		---On 12/1917, VeCheKa formed and they took over the function of the VRK which was originally an organization of the Executive Committee of Petrograd Soviet and Soldiers Deputies and from 10/29, affiliated with All Russian Central Executive Committee of 2nd Congress of Soviets or VTsIK.
		The VRK and VeCheKa are continuous and VRK was pro-Bolshevik.
		The VeCheKa was only partly under its control and was also a MULTI-party organization at that time, PRESUMABLY pro-Bolshevik, but it was ATTACHED TO the Sovnarkom (Council of People's Commissars).
	www.geocities.com /redcomrades/nkvdinfo.html (2835 words)

	Rise To Power - Lavrenty Beria
		It is also alleged that Beria joined and then deserted from the Red Army at this time, but this has not been established.) In 1920 or 1921 (accounts vary) Beria joined the Cheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution and Sabotage), the original Bolshevik political police.
		At that time, a Bolshevik revolt, supported by the Red Army, occurred in the Menshevik Democratic Republic of Georgia, and the Vecheka was heavily involved in this conflict.
		By 1922 Beria was deputy head of the Vechekas successor, the OGPU (Combined State Political Directorate), in Georgia.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Acacia1327/lavrenty-beria-rise-to-power.html (539 words)

	The KGB, Tibet, and UFOs by Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle
		The VECHEKA was the forerunner of the KGB.
		Bokiy operated undercover in the German-occupied Byelorussia, and later commanded VECHEKA troops in Turkmenistan.
		There, according to an early KGB defector, Georgy Agabekov (murdered in 1937), Bokiy proved to be a sinister person, prone to drinking human blood and eating raw canine flesh to improve his appetite.
	www.fatemag.com /issues/2000s/2002-09article1a.html (725 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Soviet Union / Glossary
		The Soviet name for the part of World War II in which the Soviet people fought against fascism from June 1941 to May 1945.
		Vecheka (Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia komissiia po bor'be s kontrrevoliutsiei i sabotazhem--VChK)
		But the Vecheka, also known as the Cheka, continued until 1922, becoming the leading instrument of terror and oppression as well as the predecessor of other secret police organizations.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/soviet_union/su_glos.html (9351 words)

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		The first Soviet state security organization, the Vecheka, was created on 20 December 1917.
		The Vecheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage) is more commonly known as the Cheka.
		The NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) had been formed to control the militia (police), criminal investigation departments, fire brigades, internal troops, and prison guards.
	www.officialspetsnaz.com /history_of_the_nkvd.htm (648 words)

	Wikinfo \| Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy
		His honest and incorruptible character combined with his complete devotion to the cause gained him swift recognition and the nickname Iron Felix.
		He was appointed by Lenin to organise a force to combat internal political threats and on December 20 the establishment of the Vecheka (All Russian Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-revolution and Sabotage) was passed by the Council of Peoples Commissars.
		As the Russian Civil War expanded, Dzierżyński also began organising the internal security troops to enforce the Cheka's authority.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Felix_Edmundovich_Dzerzhinskiy (455 words)

	Arkady Shvarts. Children of Russian immigrants. David Sarnov
		(Vecheka)-had “uncovered” and arrested the All-Russian Conference of
		The Vecheka and its agents, the Chekists, had been
		The Zionist organization arrested by Vecheka was actually a part
	www.russianseattle.com /library_03_zion.htm (1156 words)

	S. G. R. MacMillan: For the defence of serious criminal cases
		Concerns regarding behaviour of this nature are so strong the Russian government recently formed the second "Vecheka", or extraordinary committee, in its history to assist in and monitor the collection of government revenue.
		While the extremely complicated Russian taxation system evokes little sympathy, influential observers, including the International Monetary Fund, agree some action was necessary to ensure Russia continues to raise enough revenue to continue functioning as a state.
		The formation of this second Vecheka indicates the Russians are taking this matter very seriously.
	www.sgrm.com /art29.htm (3822 words)

	A Night Of Enticing Stories
		Even the mind-bending powers of a psychologist can be blind to the schemes of loved ones.
		The halls of power of Vecheka have become entangled in a far-reaching conspiracy led by a cabal of merchant-class spouses of the ruling warrior-psychologists.
		The conspirators have enlisted the aid of disaffected psychologists, workers and soldiers to rise up against their overlords in an attempt to seize power for themselves.
	www.enter.net /~whim/Conventions/dream07/dream07IGELK2.html (151 words)

	One-week ban: NKVD Secret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It predated the formation and rise of the Soviet KGB (Commissariat for State Security).
		The first Soviet state security organization, the Vecheka, was created in Dec. 1917.
		The Vecheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage), more commonly known as the Cheka, was folded into the NKVD in 1918.
	www.streamerarchives.org /Announcements/056.htm (591 words)

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