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Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, abbreviated as VChK (), and commonly known as the Cheka (), was the first Soviet secret police organization. It was established on by the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, and was led by Felix Dzerzhinsky. By the end of the Russian Civil War in 1922, the Cheka had at least 200,000 personnel.

dedovshchina
Dedovshchina (, ) is the informal practice of hazing and abuse of junior conscripts historically in the Soviet Armed Forces and today in the Russian Armed Forces, internal troops, and to a lesser extent FSB, Border Guards, as well as in other armed forces and special services of former Soviet Republics. It consists of brutalization by more senior conscripts, NCOs, and officers. It is a form of non-statutory dominant-status relations between military personnel; the most common form of non-statutory relations, which is a violation of the statutory rules of relations between conscripts, based on
Massacre of Novgorod
1570 attack by Russian forces
LGBT rights in Chechnya
Human rights in Russian territory
Sergey Golovkin
Soviet murderer (1959-1996)
Samashki massacre
1995 massacre by Russian forces in Chechnya
Vladimir Osechkin
Russian human rights activist
Alexander Spesivtsev
Russian serial killer
Filtration camp system in Chechnya
Russian concentration camps
Committee Against Torture
Russian non-governmental organization

Phone call to Putin
Russian police euphemism for torture