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Every Muscovite in all the Soviet years passed the Lubyanka with head down and eyes averted in order not to see or be seen.(The Week)(Felix Dzerzhinsky's statute)(Brief Article)
* Every Muscovite in all the Soviet years passed the Lubyanka with head down and eyes averted in order not to see or be seen. More than just the headquarters of the secret police, the Lubyanka was meant to inspire terror, and it did. Activists, artists, writers--people of the highest reputation and of no reputation--entered that dreadful place, never to emerge. In front of the building is a small square, and until 1991 a statue stood there of Felix Dzerzhinsky, colleague of Lenin and Stalin, and the cold-hearted killer who put in place the secret police ...
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