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Putin puts terror chief back on a pedestal in Moscow.(Vladimir Putin, Felix Dzerzhinsky)
"We stand for organized terror." So declared Felix Dzerzhinsky, the first head of the Soviet Union's dreaded secret police, the Cheka, forerunner of the KGB. In 1918, he launched the massive campaign of arrests, executions, and torture known as the Red Terror. Along with Lenin and Stalin, he is one of the most hated symbols of communism throughout Russia and the former Soviet bloc countries. For decades his cruel visage glowered down upon Muscovites and visitors from a giant 16-ton statue that stood in Moscow's Lubyanka Square, outside the KGB headquarters. In 1991, Muscovites--and freedom lovers the world over--cheered as the statue was toppled and removed.
However, the current Soviet "president," Vladimir Putin, is an unabashed admirer of Dzerzhinsky. That is not surprising, as he is a life-long careerist in the KGB and its current incarnation, the Russian FSB. He has made the birth date of Dzerzhinsky's infamous Cheka, December 20, a day of national celebration as "Security Organs Day." In 2002, Putin and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov proposed to restore Dzerzhinsky's statue ...
- RUSSIA: PASKO DEFENDERS DEMONSTRATE ON LUBYANKA SQUARE...(Grigorii Pasko)(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database January 20, 2002 700+ words
A group of human rights activists demonstrated on Lubyanka Square in Moscow on 7 January near the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in defense of military journalist Grigorii...
- Every Muscovite in all the Soviet years passed the Lubyanka with head down and...
- Magazine article from: National Review December 19, 2005 700+ words
...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 on which the state rested...
- Debate over statue exposes deep dilemma for Russians.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 17, 2002 700+ words
...statue of KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky from Lubyanka Square in central Moscow. Fireworks...back in the center of Lubyanka Square. Luzhkov's idea has...bring itself to discard. Lubyanka Square is dominated by the same...
- Russia & FSU News Bulletin (Daily News Briefs: SEP 14, 2002).
- Newspaper article from: Russia & FSU General News September 14, 2002 700+ words
...founder of the Soviet security agencies Felix Dzerzhinsky to Moscow's Lubyanka Square. Luzhkov told journalists on Saturday...claimed that the monument to Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka Square was one of the best in Moscow. "This...
- PAINT THE HANDS BLOOD RED.(NEWS)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) September 23, 2002 700+ words
...selective, if not actually blind. Yuri Luzhov wants to restore the great, grim statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky to its traditional place in Lubyanka Square, site of the old KGB headquarters and its justly feared Lubyanka prison where so many disappeared...
- AN OBSCENE URGE TO HONOR 'IRON FELIX'.(Opinion/Commentary/Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) September 19, 2002 700+ words
...selective, if not actually blind. Yuri Luzhov wants to restore the great, grim statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky to its traditional place in Lubyanka Square, site of the old KGB headquarters and its justly feared Lubyanka prison where so many disappeared...
- Russian liberals rally against KGB statue.
- News wire article from: United Press International September 16, 2002 700+ words
...era secret police chief Felix Dzerzhinsky to its site in front of...which had been removed from Lubyanka Square in August 1991 after Communist...to its central place on Lubyanka Square was "intolerable" because...of the KGB building in Lubyanka Square, came to signify ...
- The KGB: still a potent force.
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Trimble, Jeff September 2, 1991 700+ words
Two long shadows disappeared from Lubyanka Square in central Moscow last week. One was the shaft of darkness cast by a 14-ton statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet secret police, which was hauled away by jubilant demonstrators...
