What’s In a Name?

What’s in a name? What’s in these names? Terror, arbitrary terror, the absence of law, lawlessness, the gulag, injustice, hate, fear, late night knocks, brutality, roundups, camps, brutality, injustice, no justice, the road to man made hell.

Nazi Germany

The Gestapo

Sicherheitsdienst

Tsarist Russia

The Ohkrana

Bolshevik Russia

The Cheka

Soviet Union

The Cheka, later the

GPU

OGPU

NKVD

KGB

Putin’s Russia

The FSB

East German Democratic Republic

The Stassi

The United States Trump Regime

The FBI

INS

ICE

The Department of Justice

The Department of Homeland Security