According to Siegelbaum, the Cheka was “the sword of the Revolution”, explicitly conceived as an organ of “mass terror against the bourgeoisie and its agents”. Created as a result of opposition to the Bolshevik government, the Cheka accumulated power with each additional uprising, to the point that its campaign of political terror earned it the name "Red Terror". At the beginning, the Cheka had only 40 officials. They commanded a team of soldiers called the Sveaborgesky Regiment, alongside the Red Guards. In 1918, under the reign of Felix Dzerjinkiy, the Cheka was accumulating in mass and members; all their activities were also centralized in the city of Petrograd. The main objective of the Cheka at this time was the fight against counter-revolution, theft and any other activity perceived as a crime against the republic. By mid-1918, the Cheka's power was unquestioned and it had acquired the power not only to investigate and arrest, but also to interrogate and execute the verdict. This is due to the attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin; it was necessary to create a climate of fear in order to stifle any further attempts to take the lives of the Bolshevik leaders. The attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin was received as a shock; two of the three intended bullets hit Lenin. One of the bullets hit his left shoulder blade and the second hit his shoulder directly. The killer was arrested on site, a 30-year-old Ukrainian woman named Fanya Kaplan. At her trial, she stated that she shot Vladimir Lenin because she considered him a traitor to the revolution; she herself was a registered prisoner of the Akatua Gulag camp. After this unsuccessful attack on Lenin, the Ch...... middle of paper ...... on Red Square on October 31, 1961. The Gulag institution was closed by the MVD in 1960, but forced labor the camps continued to exist. Following this, an emergence of clandestine groups, public attacks and massive riots took place against those in power. “Researchers have drawn attention to the consequences of mass incarceration on individuals released from prison – lack of housing and employment opportunities, reduced success in marriage markets, substance abuse, serious physical and mental health problems and disenfranchisement” (Bochman, 2012). ). The country was in danger and it had to be regained control. Khrushchev's KGB, the main security agency created during the formation of the MVD, was created to regain control. The KGB used labor camps and psychiatric repression to control people, no better than the recently abolished gulag system..