Cheker had the Russian revolutionary government suppress and execute peasants, their families, and entire villages in order to force the release of grain from the peasants. The Chequers also targeted civilians as suspects, abusing and massacring them. His deputy, Latsis's troops shot and killed many peasants who were sympathetic to the insurgency during the nearly two-year civil war in Russia. They also purged revolts and uprisings by workers and peasants. The Chequers were called the greatest crime of persecuting not only the ideology of the state, but also the class system of the peasantry that would benefit from the revolution. He executed peasants, their families, and entire villages in order to force them to release their grain.
On December 20, 1917, Vladimir Lenin established the Cheka (All-Russian Provisional Committee), a secret police organization directly under the Council of People's Commissars, to stabilize the Communist government of the October Revolution in Russia. It was also involved in the Red Terror, which monitored and eradicated all counterrevolutionary movements in Russia. Counterrevolutionary groups are put on revolutionary trial and eradicated. In 1918, the Judicial Committee's notice was modified so that it was not limited by its obligations to the rule of law, due process and the rights of suspects. He carried out mass arrests, incarcerations, and executions of counterrevolutionaries without a court ruling. Cheker purged counterrevolutionary elements under the direct supervision of the Communist Party.
On April 11-12, 1918, Cheker raided about 20 houses of counterrevolutionary suspects, detaining about 520 people and killing about 20 by death penalty. Aristocrats, wealthy people, landowners, clergymen, and even Cossack soldiers were indiscriminately arrested and executed without evidence. By 1921, the Cheka had grown from about 40 people to a 200,000-strong secret police force that executed more than 12,733 people between 1918 and 1920. They were crowned with barbed wire, stabbed, crucified, hanged, stoned to death, tied to boards, forced into furnaces and boiling water, and tortured without mercy. Most of the survivors were deported to labor camps in Siberia.
On February 8, 1922, at the end of the Russian Civil War, the Cheker was reorganized and renamed the State Political Security Service (GPU); in 1934, the Cheker became part of the National People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). It was turned into a vast punitive organization by Stalin, who conducted a major purge in the 1930s. Posthumously, it was spun off as the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB), which inherited Cheker's secret police organization and its culture of clandestine abuse and genocide.
