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CHEKIST
Etymology
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, metonym) a national security official of the KGB, FSB or any of the state security intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation
Anagrams
• ethicks, hickets
Source: Wiktionary
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