Lenin founds the Cheka
1917 · Event
Six weeks after taking power, the Bolsheviks create the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission — the Cheka — under Felix Dzerzhinsky, with an open licence against 'counter-revolution and sabotage'. Every Soviet security organ to the KGB counts its lineage, and its anniversary, from this decree.
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