The Forces of Special Purpose (ChON) () were a military internal security force established by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. The Forces of Special Purpose (ChON) were created by a 17 April 1919 declaration of the

Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, – TsK KPSS was the executive leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, acting between sessions of Congress. According to party statutes, the committee directe ...

(Bolsheviks). ChON units were attached to regular party committees, from factory cells to provincial committees, and revolutionary committees. They were tasked with assisting local Soviet authorities with internal security tasks. The first ChON units were formed from party members and candidate members in Moscow and Petrograd. Membership was later given to trade union and

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

members. By September, the ChON had grown to be active in 33 governorates. The ChON units typically came under Red Army operational control in areas close to the frontline. The ChON units were disbanded and merged into the Red Army in 1924.

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