Plural form referring to members of the Cheka, Soviet secret police agents.
Russian plural of Chekist, derived from the acronym Cheka. The -i ending reflects Russian grammatical pluralization.
Soviet intelligence documents from the 1920s-30s used 'cheki' to describe the secret police operatives, and this term appears in declassified Cold War archives.
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