Yes, the most certainly did. Even today Soviet people shudder when they think about the KGB. It infiltrated organizations, business and social groups, reporting anything that was considered...
Yes. It was founded in 1917 soon after the Bolshevik Revolution and for most of the period 1917-1926 it was headed by Felix Dzherzhinsky. It had various various names and from 1954 till the collapse...
The Vecheka was Lenin's secret police; however it was more commonly known as the Cheka. The name was an acronym for the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and...