What was the Cheka when Lenin ruled Russia?

Question by Adam Newman: What was the Cheka during the time when Lenin ruled Russia?
What was the Cheka during the time when Lenin ruled Russia -1917- 1924?

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Answer by zizzuzza Trilli Campanellino
A secret police or better a police whose aim was to imprison all the leaders of opposition…in italy there was a similar corp the Camice Nere (black overall) that was the Fascist party’s police.

Answer by Slava T
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka

Felix Dzerzhinsky was not “aristocrat”. His father belonged to what you might call Polish “gentry” in English.

It might be also interesting to look into the ethnic belonging of those who headed Cheka under Lenin in Russia.

Felix Dzerzhinsky – Polish; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky;
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky – Polish; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Menzhinsky;
Martin Latsis – Latvian; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Latsis;
Jakov Peters – Latvian; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Peters;
Józef Unszlicht – Polish Jew; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Unszlicht
Moisei Uritsky – Jew; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisei_Uritsky
Genrikh Yagoda – Jew; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda

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