| chekist cadre | кадровые чекисты (He was supposed to recruit agents into our organization from among the Chekist cadre and to promote them to leading positionis so that they could seize power ... | The vogue for Andropov was such that members of Putin's chekist cadre hung calendars with his image over their desks ("Any country needs myths," said one ... Alexander Demidov) |
