All i can find on him is that he was born in 911 and died in 1960. He was also the founder of the polish social democratic party and was active in both polish and russian revolutionary movements. Can you do a mail merge or similar with a fillable pdf. Iain lauchlan young felix dzerzhinsky and the origins of. The philosophy of the useless eaters by mike smith 10 8 7. In july 1926, after the sudden death of felix dzerzhinsky, at a meeting of personnel, it was decided to. Between 1897 and 1917, he was arrested several times and spent time in prison. On 31st august 1918, dora kaplan attempted to assassinate lenin. Antecessor ele mesmo como diretor do dpe sucessor viacheslav menjinsky. Bust of felix dzerzhinsky minsk, belarus attractions. Kombinat is a term roughly equivalent to the english term combine used in. Felix dzerzhinsky received the nod to head the new organization. The 60,000 men of the czechoslovak legion fought for russia in world war i in the hope of freeing their homelands from austrohungarian rule. While still a student, he became involved in antigovernment politics, and on.
Dzerzhinsky district disambiguation, name of several districts in the countries of the former soviet union. Not warren flood but still looks like a raging disinfo campaign self d3fi4nt was spoton with everything, except for the premature specific attribution to warren. Felix dzerzhinsky biography, birth date, birth place and pictures. How the cheka became the fsb the notion of the chekas superiority is one hundred years old pavel aptekar vedomosti december 20, 2017 on december 20, 1917, the allrussian extraordinary commission for combating counterrevolution and sabotage. A 15ton sculpture of dzerzhinsky stood in front of lubyanka from 1958 until 1991, when it was toppled by. Under his direction, hundreds of thousands of people were killed during the russian revolution of 1917. Felix edmundovich dzerzhinsky nicknamed iron felix, was a bolshevik revolutionary and. Felix dzerzhinsky author of prison diary and letters. Felix dzerzhinsky 18771926, communist revolutionary, founder of the cheka.
Revolutionary buried in the kremlin wall on red square in moscow. Felix dzerzhinsky, the polrevkom and the tactics of political war. Established by lenin just six weeks after the coup of october 1917, the cheka was soviet russias first political police organization. Felix dzerzhinsky, the polrevkom and the tactics of political.
Felix edmundovich iron felix dzerzhinsky 18771926 find. It was named in honor of felix dzerzhinsky, founder of the soviet secret police. Feliks dzerzhinsky and zofia dzerzhinsky with their son jan in lugano, october 1918 from september 1918 through february 1919 sofia was a member. Felix dzerzhinsky was born on september 11, 1877 in a country estate of dzerzhinovo, near minsk, back then a part of the russian empire now in belarus. The soviet politician felix edmundovich dzerzhinsky participated in the polish and russian revolutionary movements. He joined the lithuanian social democratic party and helped to organize factory workers into trade unions. This closely documented study chronicles the chekas emergence as a vast, ubiquitous, and allpurpose apparatus for the suppression of internal opposition. Astrology and natal chart of felix dzerzhinsky, born on 1877. His aristocratic catholic family belonged to the former. Felix dzerzhinsky russiapedia politics and society. Felix dzerzhinsky 18771926, communist revolutionar, foonder o the cheka ivan dzerzhinsky 19091978, roushie componer dzerzhinsky destrict, name o several destricts in the kintras o the umwhile soviet union.
Dzerzhinsky masculine, dzerzhinskaya feminine, or dzerzhinskoye neuter may refer to. The felix dzerzhinsky guards regiments major task was the protection of the sed, especially its buildings in the capital of east berlin, and from 1960 providing security for the party leaders private residential compound, waldsiedlung, located 24 kilometres 15 mi north of berlin near wandlitz. It was claimed that this was part of the british conspiracy to overthrow the bolshevik government and orders were issued by felix dzerzhinsky, the head of cheka, to round up the agents based in british embassy in petrograd. The separate operational purpose division or odon, formerly called omsdon, is a rapid deployment internal security division of the internal troops of the ministry of internal affairs of the ussr and then the russian federation, today of the national guard forces command of the russian federation. He was the organizer and first administrator of the soviet internal security apparatus. Son of a polish nobleman, dzerzhinsky joined the kaunas kovno organization of the lithuanian social democratic party in 1895. Felix dzerzhinsky quotes author of prison diary and letters. The funeral of felix dzerzhinsky took place on 22 july 1926. Felix dzerzhinsky iron felix we communists must live modestly in such a way that the working people can say that we are using the victory of the revolution and power not for ourselves but for the happiness and welfare of the people. During wwii, she was director of the polish language tadeusz kosciuszko radio station, broadcasting the communist message into occupied poland.
Dzerzhinsky was arrested in 1897 but managed to escape from siberia two. The tambov massacre had all the characteristics of a dry run in which the bolshevik red army first exercised all its dreadful force against the civilian population revealing that lenin had discovered a powerful weapon against the ethnic european people which is evidenced by the mass murders known as the holodomor genocides occurring in 192122. Vyacheslav rudolfovich menzhinsky was a polishrussian revolutionary, a soviet statesman and party official who served as chairman of the ogpu from 1926 to 1934. Dzerzhinsky was born on september 11 th 1877 and died on july 20 th 1926.
Trusted by lenin, he was ruthless in pursuing counterrevolutionaries and other enemies of the bolsheviks. Download premium images you cant get anywhere else. She is remembered in part because she was the wife of felix dzerzhinsky. Sofia dzerzhinskaya was a polish jewish social democrat who later became a communist politician.
The name of felix dzerzhinsky immortalized in many towns and villages throughout the former soviet union. Dzerzhinsky s own position on the role of the cheka changed over time. He was the founder and head of the russian cheka from 1917 to 1921, a forerunner institution of the russian nkvd and soviet kgb. He became a party organizer, and, although he was arrested by the.
Letter from nikolai bukharin, editor of pravda, to felix dzerzhinsky, december. He is better known under his nickname as the iron felix, bloody felix, or abbreviation fd. And today this is the most urgent of the tasks of socialdemocracy, of the tasks of the small handful that survives. As a young man he was active in the lithuanian social democratic party. For all the power dzerzhinsky wielded in the cheka, he actually joined the bolshevik party. He was the founder and head of the russian cheka from 1917 to 1921, a forerunner institution of the russian nkvd and soviet.
Solving all your pdf problems in one place and yes, free. The main personages of the drama are marshal jozef pilsudski, the founder of the modern polish state and its authoritarian leader who died in 1935 and who is worshiped by some in poland still today, and felix dzerzhinsky, the founder of the soviet secret service who died in 1926 whose portraits were in every office of the kgb until the very collapse of the ussr. Find highquality felix dzerzhinsky stock photos and editorial news pictures from getty images. His sister wanda died at the age of 12, when she was accidentally shot with a hunting rifle on the.
Fed are identical to those of the leica in the first editions of the leica manual. Photo courtesy of yakaev how the cheka became the fsb the notion of the chekas superiority is one hundred years old pavel aptekar vedomosti december 20, 2017. Many people consider him a national hero, while others hold him. Felix dzerzhinsky, one of the great revolutionaries, was a steadfast communist, a staunch defender of the revolution, a fighter for a better future for his own country and people and the whole of mankind. His party pseudonyms were yatsek, yakub, pereplyotchik, franek, astronom, yuzef, and domanski. The reference here is to the thoughts aroused in f. Dzerzhinsky by the confirmation of the sentence to exile him, which meant that he had to leave the prison. Basically, many people in the federal security service, or fsb, still cannot forgive jews for founding the kgb.
Felix dzerzhinsky s national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nations famously clear skies. Dec 26, 2015 in its defense, the organizations antisemites wield iron felix dzerzhinsky, the first head of the political police, or cheka, insisting that he was a pole. This site was created to make the european and the wider white population aware of the mass slaughter of their people that took place under the jewish bolshevik regime soviet union. On socialism by felix dzerzhinsky marxists internet archive. A hundred years after the bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by jews. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the. Felix dzerzhinsky was born in poland of a landholding family. Felix dzerzhinsky is ranked 124,787 th in the world and 401 st in the communist bloc for largest trout fishing sector, scoring zero on the nemo depletion efficiency index. Dzerzhinsky had not changed his mind about the use of terror.
Feliks edmundovich dzerzhinsky, bolshevik leader, head of the first soviet secret police organization. Wachregiment feliks dzierzynski was an elite motorized rifles regiment under the command of the ministry for state security of the german democratic republic gdr. Sep 05, 2017 a new statue of comrade felix dzerzhinsky, founder of the cheka the allrussian emergency commission for combating counterrevolution and sabotage, was today unveiled in kirov, russia. New statue of felix dzerzhinsky unveiled in kirov, russia.
Originally built for the insurance company rossiya, it later became better known for housing the headquarters of the kgb in its various incarnations. Thomas masaryk asked to assemble a full czechoslovak army, a. The revolution destroyed the czarist empire of russia, replacing it with a new state called the union of soviet socialist republics, or soviet union, in 1922. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading communist morality. Felix dzerzhinsky descended from a polish noble family of long standing, with. Communist morality, published by progress, moscow, c. Sofia sigizmundovna muszkat dzerzhinskaya 18821968. Felix dzerzinsky wanted his secretpolice organization called cheka to have the power to take action against such people. Dzerzhinsky s name and image have become a highly contentious issue in modern russia. Felix edmundovich iron felix dzerzhinsky 18771926 find a. Felix dzerzhinsky wikipedia this blog format is a convenient way of putting my bibliography online and adding some of the old items, plus the occasional new one.
Putin renames police force after murderous kgb founder. Felix dzerzhinsky 1877 1926, the first head of soviet counterintelligence, still triggers controversy among russians. Felix edmundovich dzerzhinsky was a soviet statesman and a prominent member of polish and russian revolutionary movements. Between pr nezalezhnastsi and vul karla marksa is a long narrow park with a bust of felix dzerzhinsky, the founder of the kgbs predecessor the cheka and a native of belarus. These two opposite viewpoints were, oddly enough, not entirely incompatible. Felix dzerzhinsky is the author of prison diary and letters 4. Nov 29, 2017 felix dzerzhinsky 1877 1926, the first head of soviet counterintelligence, still triggers controversy among russians. Extensive assistance from the soviet public is needed. Felix edmundovich dzerzhinsky 18771926, whose initials the camera would. Dzerzhinskiy division odon separate special purpose division. He thwarted the zionist takeover of syria and destroyed the barbaric zionist proxy.
Nobel prize winner svetlana alexievich praised cheka founder. Soon after his release, dzerzhinskys goal was to organize polish refugees in russia and then go back to poland and fight for the revolution there, writing to his wife. The thousand minority in gtzegorczykowa is scattered around the country due to the postwar displacements especially in the north and west. In its defense, the organizations antisemites wield iron felix dzerzhinsky, the first head of the political police, or cheka, insisting that he was a pole. Felix edundonovich dzerzhinski o dzerzhinsky aristocrata polaco, nacido en vilna en 1877. Felix dzerzhinsky was born to ethnic polish parents of noble descent on 11 september 1877 at the dzerzhinovo family estate, about 15 km 9. Felix dzerzhinsky biography, personal life, photos, death. Felix dzerzhinsky, the son of a polish landowner, was born in vilno in 1877. Felix dzerzhinsky quotes and sayings page 1 inspiring quotes. They had begun as four foreign volunteer rifle regiments of czechs and slovaks who either lived in the ukraine or had defected from the central powers and were now fighting for imperial russia. He was a man to be feared by the enemies of the revolution, a man whose life was a neverending struggle to realise the ideals of communism. This often centres on the second jewish bolshevik mass slaughter that occurred during the years 1932 to 1933.
Lubyanka square is best known for the monumental lubyanka building, designed by aleksandr v. We offer the reader a scientific biography of felix dzerzhinsky, which, we believe, can give a. Feliks edmundovich dzerzhinskii, dzerzhinsky, felix edmundovich. Communist morality kindle edition by dzerzhinsky, felix. Share motivational and inspirational quotes by felix dzerzhinsky. Iain lauchlan young felix dzerzhinsky and the origins of stalinism at the time of his death in 1953 the question of joseph stalins place in history tended to polarise opinion. He was a man to be feared by the enemies of the revolution, a man whose life was a 6 neverending struggle to realise the ideals of communism. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Proletariat the first revolutionary workers party in poland formed in the eighties of last century. Felix dzerzhinsky was the first head of the feared cheka, the first name given to postrevolutionary russias secret police force. The son of impoverished polish nobility, he was brought up in a strict catholic tradition and was growing up fanatically religious. I have collected petrovs scans of her article into a pdf which you can.
Felix dzerzhinsky, this atypical configuration in your natal chart is one of the most complex to describe because of the very nature of the 8th house, the house of transformation, of crises leading to personal reconstruction, but also the house of sexuality, hidden knowledge, investment and inheritance. Felix dzerzhinsky, interviewed in novaia zhizn 14th july, 1918 convinced that all opposition was counterrevolutionary, the bolshevik leadership created the commission for combating counterrevolution and sabotage dec. Felix is so preoccupied that he cannot afford a minute to write a letter. Most westerners have never heard of him, but he is a communist god and they have erected a huge statue in his honour torn down, but soon to be reerected in moscow. Felix dzerzhinsky is often referred to as a pole, but this is misleading, as he was a revolutionary jew, which should come as no surprise to any student of bolshevik history. Felix dzerzhinsky was a polishborn marxist revolutionary. Aug 31, 2016 felix edmundovich dzerzhinsky, nicknamed iron felix, was a soviet statesman of polish descent and a prominent member of revolutionary movements. While he was head of cheka, felix dzerzhinsky depicted here, in 1918 used fanny kaplans attempted. In this essay first published in 1930 in france, the founder of the workers group denounces the bureaucracy that he claims. Letters written between 1898 and 1916 in prison and exile, except for the letter dated october 6 september 23, 1902.
Felix dzerzhinsky project gutenberg selfpublishing. Felix dzerzhinsky pdf son of a polish nobleman, dzerzhinsky joined the kaunas kovno organization of the lithuanian social democratic party in he became a party organizer. Im trying to find information on felix dzerzhinsky s only child. Slave labor in soviet russia preface the world today 1937 is comparatively well informed about the fate of the compulsion workers in the soviet union.
And yet, even in such a thing as the salvation and provisioning of children, one meets with negligence and even pilfering. The polish proletariat welcomed the merger of the two parties. Felix dzerzhinsky was freed from butyrka after the february revolution of 1917. In fact, dzerzhinsky was himself halfjewish, beginning his revolutionary activities as a fluent speaker of yiddish in the ranks of a jewish youth movement. Dzerzhinsky article about dzerzhinsky by the free dictionary. Feliks edmundovich dzerzhinsky russian revolutionary. Felix dzerzhinsky was born on 11 september 1877 at the dzerzhinovo family estate, about 15 km 9.