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20th December 1917: Establishment of the Cheka, the Russian Bolshevik secret police

20th December 2025
Tagged as: Cheka, Communism, Communist, Lenin, Russia, Secret Police, USSR

Established following a decree by Lenin on 19 December, the Cheka’s focus was on defending the revolution by removing internal threats to the communist regime.

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26th April 1933: The Gestapo secret police established by Hermann Göring in Nazi Germany

26th April 2024
Tagged as: Concentration Camp, Germany, Gestapo, Goering, Himmler, Holocaust, Law, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Persecution, Police, Repression, Secret Police, SS

The Gestapo operated with broad authority and virtually unlimited power, employing a network of informants and spies to monitor and report on suspected dissidents and political opponents.

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20th December 1917: Establishment of the Cheka, the Russian Bolshevik secret police

26th April 1933: The Gestapo secret police established by Hermann Göring in Nazi Germany

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

17th October 1814: London Beer Flood kills eight people when nearly one and a half million litres of beer sweep out of the Horse Shoe Brewery

16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland

15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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