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Another significant appointment was that of M. Dzerzhinsky, creator and chief of the Cheka, who became head of the Supreme Council of National Economy in the place of M. Rykov...
...announced, but subsequently denied, that Trotsky had been arrested by M. Dzerjinsky, chief of the Cheka, the political police force of Sovietdom, on the order of M. Zinoviev, President of the Moscow Soviet. He was charged with "treasonable conspiracy against the Soviet, rebellion against the Central Committee of the Communist Party and disloyalty to the Internationale...
...report was, however, partly substantiated by evidence from Moscow, received by the British Foreign Office, which purported to prove the Cheka had attempted to "kidnap" the War Lord, presumably for "flirting with the monarchists and plotting to make himself a dictator a la mode under a puppet Tsar." It was not clear whether this report had any connection with his arrest, but the details of the attempted kidnapping...
...midnight an armored car and two lorries full of men halted opposite the palatial country residence of M. Trotsky outside Moscow. The men descended, marched to the big iron gates and demanded to be admitted "in the name of the Cheka." Trotsky's guards refused to open the gates; the men from the Cheka blew them up. Inside the grounds, however, they were confronted with barbed wire entanglements and a chain of concrete "pill boxes." Fire was opened, two Cheka men dropped dead; the remainder took cover; communications were cut. Meanwhile, one of Trotsky's soldiers had climbed...
...sweep of dancing children to join the admiration of the miracle which Isadora's art had conjured?then the music swelled and a mystic and dramatic dance began. Among the children was noticed a little blonde eight-year-old girl, Mary Peters, daughter of Karl Peters, Chief of the Cheka, or the Robespierre of the Russian Revolution. Her little red tunic was "like a drop of blood in the spotlight " ?a reminder of another side of Communism...