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6 people

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Yakov Khristoforovich Peters Яков Христофорович Петерс Founding deputy chairman of the Cheka, Honorary Chekist No. 2 Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1886–1938
Martin Ivanovich Lācis Mārtiņš Lācis Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Cheka and theorist of class-based Red Terror Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1888–1938
Eduard Petrovich Berzin Эдуард Петрович Берзин The Latvian Chekist who built Dalstroy and colonised Kolyma with forced labour for gold Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1938
Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky Леонид Михайлович Заковский The Hammer of Leningrad Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1894–1938
Viktors Arājs Viktors Arājs Latvian former policeman whose Arajs Kommando, under the SS Security Service, murdered about half of Latvia’s Jews Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime 1910–1988
Boris Karlovich Pugo Борис Карлович Пуго From Latvian KGB chief to USSR interior minister, a guardian of order shattered in the coup he backed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1937–1991