Central authorities did eventually succeed in bringing their Cheka franchises under discipline, but the murder, torture, and plunder continued, the only change being central direction and a … When in 1918, the opposition towards the Bolsheviks grew, so did the size of the CHEKA. As the Bolsheviks expanded their definition of who was an enemy of the revolution, they also expanded the Cheka. After 1922, Cheka groups underwent many reorganizations, as did the NKVD. The Cheka stems from the full name in Russian: The All Russian Emergency Commission for Combatting Counter-Revolution and Sabotage. He was Mikhail Kedrov, a member of a Moscow aristocratic family who became a Leninist Bolshevik and member of the Cheka, [the first incarnation of the Soviet secret police apparatus]. You KNOW what ("They") are going to do. The CHEKA became the Sword and Shield of the Russian Revolution, hence the emblem of the shield. However, the Cheka did carry out this punishment several times, though the Russian people reacted by improvising draughts sets with factory garbage. The Cheka (a forerunner of the notorious KGB), or political police, was formed in December 1917 to protect communist power. Among the targets of the Cheka were Russian nationalists who objected strongly to the bolshevization of Russia. By the end of the Civil War the Cheka had become a powerful force. The Cheka became, alongside the Red Army, the main instrument of Bolshevik dictatorship. Ordinary people suffered even worse than they ever had done under the Tsarist regimes, but this is the natural result of all revolutions supposedly founded to make the lot of working people better. ** Cheka’s focus was “defending the revolution by removing defectors” [4]. In order to tighten his grip on power and to set the stage for the brutal Russian Civil War, Lenin formed the Cheka to terrorize his opposition. ("They") are already doing-it with their Biolocial-Warfare covid Pogrom. Cheka orchestrated a massive retaliatory campaign of repression, executions, and arrests against all opponents of the Bolshevik government, in what came to be known as "Red Terror". In 1921, it was 200,000. The Cheka had no say in what they had to enforce, they were simply the brainless bodyguards that would do the dirty work for their leader. The Cheka grows. In 1921 the troops of the Cheka numbered 200,000. These sets were larger than a standard draughts set, and became known as гигантские шашки (giant draughts). The Cheka, “The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage” was founded by decree on December 20, 1917 by Vladimir Lenin. Lenin’s decree of the Cheka’s powers and parameters were intentionally vague. Others say members of the Cheka rarely actually seized a checkerboard. Its members were called Chekists well into the late 1980s. In 1918 – 1921, The Cheka held 200,000 members. A small force of just a few hundred men in early 1918, within two years the Cheka was one of the largest Soviet agencies, employing around 200,000 people. This is exactly what Napoleon and Stalin in the Russian Revolution wanted, they wanted followers who would not doubt anything that … ~~~~~ This is what ("They") did in the Soviet Union. From its start, the Cheka was an important military and security arm of the Bolshevik communist government. Lead by Dzerzhinsky, a fanatical Bolshevik who was similar to Lenin, the agency grew from 100 members to just over 100,000.