чекист

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Etymology

From Чека́ (Čeká) +‎ -и́ст (-íst).

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  • Rhymes: -ist

Noun

чеки́ст (čekístm anim (genitive чеки́ста, nominative plural чеки́сты, genitive plural чеки́стов, feminine чеки́стка)

  1. (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
  2. (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

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