A Checa in Spain (named after the early Soviet secret police units) relates to any one of several unofficial or clandestine paramilitary police deployed during the Spanish Revolution of 1936 in Republican zones to detain, interrogate, torture, extrajudicially condemn and subsequently mutilate or murder those suspected or accused of sympathizing with any supposed enemy, whether genuine opponents or not.[1][2][3]
The historian Peter H. Wyden, in his work The Passionate War, The Narrative History of the Spanish Civil War 1936–39 describes the Checas in the following way:
The investigative bodies created by left-wing political parties and unions in the large cities of the republican rearguard when the military pronouncement of July 1936 failed, have historically been called Checas. The name came from the first Soviet political police. created in Russia in 1917. CHEKA is the Russian acronym for All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Suppression of Counterrevolution and Sabotage, precursor of the OGPV, NKVD and KGB[4]
Some of these units were independent local initiatives distinguished by the street where they were located, or by the name of their founder or leader, There were also similar groups of women known as blue Checas, such as the Checa Blue of Seville, was located in a Jesuit building located at building Nº 7 on the street known as calle de Jesús del Gran Poder.However, those related to official organizations that operated in a wider area used a semi-official name. One such was the Checa de Bellas Artes, an arm of the Provincial Public Investigation Committee Nº 5
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