Chekist
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English
Etymology
From Russian чеки́ст (čekíst) from Чека́ (Čeká) + -ист (-ist).
Noun
Chekist (plural Chekists)
- (historical) 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) A national security official of the KGB, FSB or any of the state security intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation.
Alternative forms
Translations
agent of the Cheka
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