Putin puts terror chief back on a pedestal in Moscow.(Vladimir Putin, Felix Dzerzhinsky)

From: The New American | Date: December 12, 2005 | Copyright information

"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...

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