The return of Feliks Dzerzhinsky.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)

The Washington Times | December 14, 1998| | Copyright

Imagine reading a news item one morning that Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany and a majority of the Bundestag had voted to erect in downtown Berlin a 40-foot bronze statue of Heinrich Himmler, head of Hitler's Gestapo and one of the Holocaust planners.

The impossible in today's Germany is the morbidly possible in today's Russia. Earlier this month, the lower house of the Russian Duma voted overwhelmingly to "resurrect" the 40-foot bronze statue of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, the Polish-born revolutionary and founder of the Soviet secret police. ...

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