Ceka
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The Ceka was the name of a unit of the National Fascist party, modeled on the Russian Cheka. Far from being a professional police force, the Ceka was nothing but a secret "hit squad" acting on Mussolini's direct orders. After the murder of Giacomo Matteotti in 1924, which put in serious jeopardy Mussolini's budding dictatorship, it was disbanded and replaced by the OVRA.
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