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

Felix Dzerzhinsky ( the Iron Felix ) was appointed as Director and invited the participation of the following individuals: V. K. Averin, V. N. Vasilevsky, D. G. Yevseyev, N. A. Zhydelev, I. K. Ksenofontov, G. K. Ordjonikidze, Ya.

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 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.

And later ten films by the Pat Sullivan Studio from 1918 – 1919, which would later use the ' Charlie / Charley ' gestures to create Felix the Cat, the character made one later appearance in one of Felix's 1923 cartoons " Felix in Hollywood ".

The Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg however, styles all its members as " Royal Highness " since 1919 ; this is due to the fact that they are cadet members of the Royal and Ducal House of Bourbon-Parma, as male-line descendants of Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma.

On November 9, 1919, Master Tom, a prototype of Felix, debuted in a Paramount Pictures short entitled Feline Follies.

It was a success, and the Sullivan studio quickly set to work on producing another film featuring Master Tom, the Felix the Cat prototype in The Musical Mews ( released 16 November 1919 ).

Otto Messmer gave two different versions of how Felix got his name, the one on his official site ” Rejoining Sullivan with a great idea for a new character named Felix the Cat, and the second that ” Mr. ( John ) King of Paramount Magazine suggested the name " Felix ", after the Latin words felis ( cat ) and felix ( lucky ), which was used for the third film, The Adventures of Felix ( released on 14 December 1919 ).

A Felix prototype in " Feline Follies " ( 1919 )

" Another episode of The Simpsons, in which the origins of the cartoon characters Itchy & Scratchy are explored, parallels some of the disputed history Felix's creation set forth above, and includes a spoof film entitled Manhattan Madness, presented as the first Itchy & Scratchy cartoon, supposedly from 1919, that is similar in style to " Felix in Hollywood " and other early Felix animations.

* Dardanella, words by Fred Fisher, music by Felix Bernard ( 1897 – 1944 ) & Johnny S. Black ( 1895 – 1936 ), McCarthy & Fisher Inc. ( 1919 )

She would retain the attribute of Royal Highness consistent with the tradition that conferred that style, for example, upon descendants of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg as a result of her 1919 marriage to HRH Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma ( member of a deposed dynasty that descends agnatically from the royal House of Bourbon and once reigned over the kingdom of Etruria ).

Felix the Cat was first created in in 1919 with Feline Follies and became hugely successful throughout the 1920s.

* Otto Messmer and the first cartoon superstar Felix the Cat, 1919

On 6 November 1919 in Luxembourg, she married Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, a first cousin on her mother's side.

* Henry L. Roberts " The Diplomacy of Colonel Beck " pages 579 – 614 from The Diplomats 1919 – 1939 edited by Gordon A. Craig & Felix Gilbert, Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1953.

* Paul E. Zinner " Czechoslovakia: The Diplomacy of Eduard Benes " pages 100 – 122 from The Diplomats 1919 – 1939 edited by Gordon A. Craig & Felix Gilbert, Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1953.

In London in 1919, he met Felix Yusupov again, but they soon fell out ; officially over Felix's open gloating in the press of having killed Rasputin, which would endanger Dmitri's chances of a succession to the throne ( still thought possible at that stage ) by mere association.

Felix von Hartmann ( December 15, 1851 – November 11, 1919 ) was a German prelate, who was Archbishop of Cologne from 1912 to 1919.

In 1922, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter undertook a detailed quantitative study of crime reporting in Cleveland newspapers for the month of January 1919, using column inch counts.

* Felix Reid and Bob ( or The Simpleston ) ( 1919 )