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The Cheka is reported to have practiced torture.

Depending on Cheka committees in various cities, the methods included: being skinned alive, scalped, " crowned " with barbed wire, impaled, crucified, hanged, stoned to death, tied to planks and pushed slowly into furnaces or tanks of boiling water, or rolled around naked in internally nail-studded barrels.

Chekists reportedly poured water on naked prisoners in the winter-bound streets until they became living ice statues.

Others reportedly beheaded their victims by twisting their necks until their heads could be torn off.

The Chinese Cheka detachments stationed in Kiev reportedly would attach an iron tube to the torso of a bound victim and insert a rat in the tube closed off with wire netting, while the tube was held over a flame until the rat began gnawing through the victim's guts in an effort to escape.

Anton Denikin's investigation discovered corpses whose lungs, throats, and mouths had been packed with earth.