history · 20 December 1917 · 108 years ago
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Speculation, Sabotage and Misconduct in Office (VCheKa) was established. The new security force would become a virtual law unto itself during the civil war, when an estimated 250,000 people were executed by its hands.
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