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Chekists

What are Chekists?

Officers of the Soviet Cheka, the NKVD, the secret police who carried out the dirty work of arrests, torture and execution against real or imagined dissent. Here, a label being applied to people who attempt to impose and enforce arbitrary ideological conformity.

I like it. It's succinct and to the point. Will use it in the future.

A funny variant is "Bluecheka", from Twitter's "Bluecheck".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism

Hereditary ideological enforcer.

Thanks!