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Felix and Dzerzhinsky
It was created on December 20, 1917, after a decree issued by Vladimir Lenin, and was subsequently led by aristocrat-turned-communist Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Belenky ( standing ), Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, 1921
Image: Bukharin Dzerjinsky. jpg | Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, as the Sword of Revolution, 1925
Julian Semyonov was an influential spy novelist, writing in the Eastern Bloc, whose range of novels and novel series featured a White Russian spy in the USSR ; Max Otto von Stierlitz, a Soviet mole in the Nazi High Command, and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka.
* 1877 – Felix Dzerzhinsky, Polish-Russian revolutionary and statesman ( d. 1926 )
They also note that Lenin put a ban on factions within the Russian Communist Party and introduced the one-party state in 1921-a move that enabled Stalin to get rid of his rivals easily after Lenin's death, and cite Felix Dzerzhinsky, who, during the Bolshevik struggle against opponents in the Russian Civil War, exclaimed " We stand for organised terror – this should be frankly stated ".
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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky ( Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński, Russian: Фе ́ ликс Эдму ́ ндович Дзержи ́ нский ; 20 July 1926 ) was a Soviet statesman and a prominent member of Polish and Russian revolutionary movements.
Felix Dzerzhinsky was born into a purported Polish szlachta ( noble ) family of the Sulima coat of arms on 11 September 1877 at the family estate Dzerzhinovo farmstead, away from Ivyanets.
As an organizer of a shoemaker's strike, Dzerzhinsky was arrested for " criminal agitation among the Kovno workers " and the police files from this time state that: " Felix Dzerzhinsky, considering his views, convictions and personal character, will be very dangerous in the future, capable of any crime.
Felix Dzerzhinsky in 1919
Felix Dzerzhinsky was freed from Butyrka after the February Revolution of 1917.
In Petrograd, Dzerzhinsky participated in the crucial session of the Central Committee in October and he strongly endorsed Lenin's demands for the immediate preparation of a rebellion, after which Felix Dzerzhinsky had an active role with the Military Revolutionary Committee during the October Revolution.
Vladimir Lenin regarded Felix Dzerzhinsky as a revolutionary hero and appointed him to organize a force to combat internal threats.
Felix Dzerzhinsky at the front with Timofei Sapronov behind him and Lev Kamenev on the left
Felix Dzerzhinsky and the SDKPiL: A study of the origins of Polish Communism.
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Felix Dzerzhinsky at the front with Timofei Sapronov behind him and Lev Kamenev on the left
Realizing that it was left with no capable security force, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR created a secret political police, the Cheka, led by Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Picture of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky | Dzerzhinsky during a parade in 1936.

Felix and Iron
He is better known under his nickname as the Iron Felix or abbreviation FD.
" Iron Felix " also refers to his 15-ton iron monument, which once dominated the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, near the KGB headquarters.
Symbolically, the Memorial to the Victims of the Gulag ( a simple stone from Solovki ) was erected beside the Iron Felix and the latter was removed in August 1991, after the failed rebellion of hard-line Communist members of government.
A 10-foot bronze replica of the original Iron Felix statue was placed on the grounds of the military academy in Minsk, Belarus in May 2006.
In April 2012, the Moscow authorities stated that they would be renovating the " Iron Felix " monument in full and put the statue on a list of monuments to be renovated, as well as officially designated it an object of cultural heritage.
Other sources claim the city was named for Felix I. Tarrant, President of National Cast Iron Pipe Company, which built the first major industrial plant in the area in 1912.
Iron Felix or Iron Feliks may refer to one of the following
Through the efforts of the society, on October 30, 1990, the Memorial to the Victims of the Gulag ( a simple stone from Solovki ) was erected at the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, near the KGB headquarters beside the Iron Felix ( the latter was removed in August 1991 ).
The All-Union sport society of Dinamo itself was just recently formed in 1923 on the initiative of the " Iron Felix ".
Yevgeny Vuchetich's monumental statue of Dzerzhinsky ( nicknamed Iron Felix ) was erected in the center of the square in 1958.
The grounds of this branch of the museum contain a collection of Socialist Realism sculpture, including such highlights as Yevgeny Vuchetich's iconic statue of " Iron Felix " ( which was removed from Lubyanka Square in 1991 ), the " Swords Into Plowshares " sculpture representing a nude worker forging a plough out of a sword, and the " Young Russia " monument.

Felix and was
Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.
Perhaps if Felix had first come upon us when this boy was not cavorting so gaily up and down the hall outside the murdered woman's apartment, we might have had less trouble convincing Felix of our seriousness.
By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.
Felix was the exception.
That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.
If Felix was still wearing the hat and carrying the horn because he'd forgotten about them, he now remembered.
For Felix it was a bit of a stretch to make even that measurement.
This was a broth of a boy, our Felix, and nothing was more obvious than the joy he took in demonstrating how agile he was and how full of juice and spirit.
When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.
Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.
Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.
He was an excellent pianist, and the author of numerous compositions somewhat reminiscent of Felix Mendelssohn.
Antipope Felix II was installed as Pope in 355 after the Emperor Constantius II banished the reigning Pope, Liberius, for refusing to subscribe the sentence of condemnation against Saint Athanasius.
The Emperor planned to have Felix and Liberius rule jointly, but when Liberius returned Felix was forced to retire to Porto, near Rome, where, after making an unsuccessful attempt to establish himself again in Rome, he died on 22 November 365.
This Felix was later confused with a Roman martyr named Felix, with the result that he was included in lists of the Popes as Felix II and that the succeeding Popes of the same name ( Pope Felix III and Pope Felix IV ) were given wrong numerals, as was Antipope Felix V.

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