25 mars 1919 - Chernyak reports cheka interference in berdyansk

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Also in March, 1919, Chernyak reported to Makhno that in
Berdyansk, as well as the Makhnovist Kontrrazvedka there was also
a local branch of the Cheka, which was harming the work of the
Kontrrazvedka in any way possible: it was interfering with recruiting
and it was arresting Kontrrazvedka agents (kontrrazvedniks). Judg-
ing from his report, Chernyak was prepared to act resolutely, only
regretting the presence in the Cheka branch of former insurgents
from the Operations Section. From a discussion between Makhno
and one of the commissars it emerged that, according to the agree-
ment between the RKKA and the Insurgent Army in the region of
the anarcho-communist experiment of the Makhnoshchina, i.e. in
the Makhnovist Liberated Zone, repressive Red organizations like
the Cheka or the prodorgans were not permitted. The commissar objected that the workers themselves organized the Cheka for de-
fense against Makhnovist guerillas. Nevertheless, Makhno without
hesitating ordered Chernyak to break up the Berdyansk Cheka.

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