чекист
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Russian
Etymology
From Чека́ (Čeká) + -и́ст (-íst).
Pronunciation
Noun
чеки́ст • (čekíst) m anim (genitive чеки́ста, nominative plural чеки́сты, genitive plural чеки́стов, feminine чеки́стка)
- (historical) Chekist; an agent of the Cheka, the Soviet Russian secret police from 1917 to 1922, replacing the Okhrana secret police of Tsarist Russia; succeeded by the OGPU and NKVD
- (by extension, metonymically) KGB man, FSB agent; a national security official employed by any of the state security intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation
Declension
Declension of чеки́ст (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
Related terms
- Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия (Vserossijskaja črezvyčajnaja komissija)
- ВЧК (VČK)
- Чека́ (Čeká)
- ЧК (ČK)