The CHEKA (Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия/VChK)
Torture methods of the Bolshevik secret police.
In 1924, Russian writer Sergei Melgunov published a detailed account of violence and torture during the Bolshevik Red Terror. In this grim extract, he outlines some of the extreme torture methods employed by CHEKA agents (here referred to as “Excommers”). It should be acknowledged that Melgunov was a liberal-socialist who was bitterly opposed to the Bol…
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