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Che⋅ka

  [che-kah]
–noun
(in the Soviet Union) the state secret-police organization (1917–22), succeeded by the GPU.
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Origin:
1920–25; < Russ Cheká, Vecheká, names of the initial letters of Vserossíĭskaya chrezvycháĭnaya Kommíssiya (po bor'bé s kontrarevolyútsieĭ, spekulyátsieĭ i sabotázhem) All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (for the Struggle against Counterrevolution, Speculation and Sabotage)

Related forms:
Chekist, noun
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Cheka 
early Soviet secret police, 1921, from Rus. initials of Chrezvychainaya Komissiya "Extraordinary Commission (for Combating Counter-Revolution);" set up 1917, superseded 1922 by G.P.U.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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