> so how were they different mongol? i am not writing entire essays, but cheka was a wartime organization and as such, since the soviets didn't have a government yet, it had no supervision. anyone could kill anyone for any reason. the only document they had to present was who was killed, where and when. no name of the assasin, no reason given. god knows how many people died as a result of personal grudges for no reason. cheka also didn't have prisons, everyone was just shot or maybe tortured for a while before to get information. it was the most rough and brutal but had the lowest death count as it wasn't (couldn't) be systematically used gpu was a proper intelligence agency of the actual soviet government, it had oversight and limits of power, they couldn't just randomly kill people without reason, they also had prisons and were later connected up to the gulag system ogpu was the "joint" political directorate, so it was the beginning of uniting the institutions of police, inspectors and secret police in one institution. but it didn't last very long before
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