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Iron Feliks' fall: Toppling an icon of the high priest of Soviet terror
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Save for removing Lenin himself from his tomb, the people of
Moscow could have made no better gesture toward the demise of the
Bolshevik era than pulling down the great bronze statue of Feliks
Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky in the square that bears his name.
Dzerzhinsky -- "Iron Feliks" -- was the founder of the feared
Cheka, Lenin's secret police, which specialized in state terror and
was the forerunner of the Soviet KGB. Dzerzhinsky was there at
Lenin's side when the Bolsheviks, then a mino...
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Iron Feliks' fall: Toppling an icon of the high priest of Soviet terror
The Boston Globe
; Save for removing Lenin himself from his tomb, the people of Moscow could have made no better gesture toward the demise of the Bolshevik era than pulling down the great bronze statue of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky in the square that bears his name. Dzerzhinsky -- "Iron Feliks" -- was the founder
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Iron Feliks is back
International Herald Tribune
; International Herald Tribune 11-21-2005 Fourteen years ago, Moscow's summer was filled with sheer exuberance. The Soviet Union was suddenly gone, separated into 15 different states and a thousand pieces. People were afraid, but many believed Russia would turn democratic naturally, like a whole
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KGB's founder back on his plinth in Russia
The Independent on Sunday
; Thirteen years ago, democracy-hungry Russians yelped with joy as a statue to one of the Soviet Union's most brutal secret policemen was toppled. Yesterday, in a potent symbol of the new Putinised Russia, a new statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of what was later to become the KGB, was erected.
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The return of Feliks Dzerzhinsky.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
The Washington Times
; 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 ...
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 "The Moscow Times (Russia)")
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Luzhkov Wants to Resurrect Iron Felix, THE MOSCOW TIMES
The Moscow Times (Russia)
; 00-00-0000 Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov on Friday called for the resurrection of the towering statue of Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanskaya Ploshchad, in a surprise move that drew sharp criticism from liberal politicians. The 15-ton bronze statue, one of the most
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Moscow Stories Both the founder of the KGB and our own Iron Lady are back in fashion. Mary Dejevsky detects a nostalgic longing for the age of discipline and `order'
The Independent on Sunday
; The Weakest Link is on TV, complete with black-clad Russian dominatrix. The news on a rival channel reports the latest drive-by shooting - of a Moscow company director, "presumably because of his business activities ...
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City Rejects Return of Dzerzhinsky, THE MOSCOW TIMES
The Moscow Times (Russia)
; 00-00-0000 A city committee ruled Tuesday that the giant statue of Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky will not return to its old home on Lubyanskaya Ploshchad, despite support from Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov for the move. The Moscow City Duma's monuments committee rejected an appeal by
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 "Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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Iron Felix's first comrade: Letters reveal early romance of the leader of U.S.S.R.'s secret police.(Letter to the editor)
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
; Byline: Erika Niedowski Jul. 1--MOSCOW -- They met at a gathering of exiles in 1898, two revolutionary-minded activists with a penchant for talking politics and literature. He was attracted by her ideas, her morality, her kind but serious eyes. Felix Dzerzhinsky fell deeply in love. The man who
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Plan to restore statue denounced; KGB chief: Activists rally against mayor's proposal
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; MOSCOW (AP) - A towering statue of the founder of the dreaded Soviet secret police could soon be rescued from a grassy park where it has idled with other fallen Soviet leaders for a decade - sparking protests from activists who consider it a symbol of terror. Liberal lawmakers and human-rights
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Backlash from the depths of despair: Siberia's coal miners feel betrayed by politicians, including Boris Yeltsin.
U.S. News & World Report
; The Dzerzhinsky mine in deepest Siberia is the heart of darkness. The men who work these dangerous pits in Prokopyevsk, 2,000 miles east of Moscow, say they believe in nothing and no one- -not the upcoming elections, not the strike they are calling, not Boris Yeltsin. It is before elections,
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