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Under the Sign of the Scorpion: the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
It was the morning of 30 August 1918. A cyclist turned up in Petrograd’s Palace Square at around nine o’clock.
He stopped at house number 6, the headquarters of the Commune Commissariat for Internal Affairs and the Extraordinary Commission, the Cheka. This terror organisation had been founded on 7 December 1917, but officially it did not exist.
Only on 18 December 1927, did Pravda publish the decree that officially established the Cheka.
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The cyclist was a young man wearing a leather jacket and an officer’s cap. He left his bicycle by the door and entered.
It was reception day at the Commissariat for Internal Affairs. Visitors were waiting in the hall and did not notice the young man who sat down near the entrance.
Moisei Uritsky arrived in his car at around ten o’clock.
He was the chairman of the Petrograd Cheka. Uritsky had become infamous as the “Butcher of Petrograd”. He threatened to kill all Russians