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.

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.

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.

Alfred Krupp ( born Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp ), son of Friedrich Carl, was born in Essen in 1812.

* January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.

Sousa started his music education by playing the violin as a pupil of John Esputa and George Felix Benkert ( born 1831 ) for harmony and musical composition at the age of six.

* Felix Alfarth, merchant, born 5 July 1901 in Leipzig.

Felix was born into a Roman senatorial family and was a great-great-grandfather of Pope Gregory I.

In February 1968, Ensslin broke up with Vesper by phone, informing him that the relationship was already finished before Felix was born.

He was born at Geneva the son of Antipope Felix V and Mary of Burgundy ; he was the first to hold the title of Prince of Piedmont.

Galerius was born in Serdica, though some modern scholars consider the strategic site where he later built his palace named after his mother – Felix Romuliana ( Gamzigrad ) – his birth and funeral place.

He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of the emperor Galerius near their family lands around Felix Romuliana ; a rural area then in the Danubian region of Moesia, now Eastern Serbia.

Felix Yusupov was born in Saint Petersburg, capital of the Russian Empire.

Felix became heir to the immense fortune after his older brother Nikolai Felixovich, Count Sumarokov-Elston ( born 1883 ), was killed in a duel on June 22, 1908.

Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland.

* Janis Hansen ( former actress and Playboy Bunny, now an agent / manager ), best known for playing " Gloria ", Felix Unger's ex-wife on the TV series The Odd Couple, was born in Celoron.

* Bishopville is where college football legend, and 1945 Heisman Trophy winner, " Mr. Inside " Felix " Doc " Blanchard was born.

* Felix Ley, Roman Catholic bishop, was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin, raised in Hewitt.

** His Highness Prince Felix Henrik Valdemar Christian of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, born on 22 July 2002.

* Felix Cavaliere ( born November 29, 1944, Pelham Manor, New York ) – vocals, keyboards

Bethmann Hollwig was born in Hohenfinow, Brandenburg, the son of Prussian official Felix von Bethmann Hollweg.

Like Felix ( who was born in 1809 ), Fanny showed prodigious musical ability as a child and began to write music.

His four children were all born on notable dates: Gus on Guy Fawkes Day 1973 ; Sunny on Valentine's Day 1975 ; Minna on Australia Day 1992 and Felix on Christmas Day 1995.

* January 16-Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven ( born 1795 )

* February 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian ( born 1706 )

They had two sons, Merrick and Felix ( born 1953 ).