Posted on 10/10/2004 11:05:36 AM PDT by FearGodNotMen
Belarus Unveils Memorial to KGB Founder Dzerzhinsky
MosNews
Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko, criticized in the West for his authoritarian tendencies, presented the public with a new memorial to Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky at a ceremony in the Minsk region Thursday.
“The united principles and high aims established by our predecessors are a good foundation for strengthening ties between our special forces,” Interfax quoted the Belarus president as saying at the opening ceremony, held in Dzerzhinsky’s home town, now named Dzerzhinovo, where the memorial was erected.
Russia has forged close ties with the former Soviet state, now its closest economic partner among all the CIS states. Calling terrorism the “plague of the 21st century,” Lukashenko emphasized the fight against it as the number one priority in cooperation among special forces in the two countries.
“But what we build on that foundation, and how it works, will depend only on us, on our special forces.”
The president added that what his country was currently going through was similar to the hardships suffered by the country at the time of the creation of the secret police in the 1920’s. “It was created by a great man, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky.”
Polish born revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky headed Soviet Russia’s first secret police, the CheKa (Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage) in 1917. The CheKa was instrumental in suppressing counter-revolutionary activities and carrying out the Red Terror. It was the predecessor of the KGB and today’s FSB.
Speaking of pootie-pootie and his merry band of FSB thugs, you might want to check the following threads:
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/question_putin.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240228/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240451/posts
Look forward to your comments.
I do know that Putin is an admirer of Stalin(to some degree but its been a few years since reading about this so I don't remember much about the particulars) as well and that he and Lukashenko seem to get along quite well, but Putin doesn't comment to much about it. For him he plays the 'public statesman' very well. I also don't think you will find much of anything about Putin position about returning the statue in the public forum. At this point it is still a proposal, but given enough time I do believe we will see the statue returned.
Sword and Shield of the Party Bump.
"I do know that Putin is an admirer of Stalin"
I meant an admirer of Dzerzhinsky, not Stalin.
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