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Monument to the Cheka – the soldiers of the Revolution // Ukraine

04/06/2016
Monument to the Cheka – the soldiers of the Revolution // Ukraine
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Це наша перемога … смерть тирана …на них кров руках
This is our victory…death to tyrant…they have blood (of Ukrainians) on their hands ( Thanks Marko for the translation )

Monument to the Cheka ( aka All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage later known as KGB ) @ Lybidska Square //‪‬ Kiev //‪‬ Ukraine// 1967 // Sculptor Василь Бородай – Vasiliy Boroday

No scholars are sure how many were killed by the Cheka during the soviet ‘Red Terror’ ( 1918–1922 ) and the figures vary widely from 50 000 to a quarter million people.

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