RUSSIA: 'Iron Felix' Back at Petrovka 38 (Dzerzhinsky returns to Lubyanka)

The Moscow Times ^ | November 9, 2005 | Carl Schreck

[Red Badger]

Will make great roost for pigeons so the old commies can feed them..........

[REactor]

[CondorFlight]

This is like retired German police officers requesting a bust of Himmler in their headquarters.

[Red Badger]

So they can sit around and talk about "The Good Old Days"......?

[txzman]

Ignorant men, longing for a past that never existed.

[xJones]

This is an ominous development in Russia. Here's another article about this: FELIX DZERZHINSKY: RETURN OF A "HERO"

"The debate over Dzerzhinsky's monument is part of an on-going rehabilitation of Soviet history. Postage stamps have been issued commemorating heroes of Russian espionage, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation, while the highly respected Italian news daily Corrier della Sera reports that Russian intelligence personnel are using a special calendar which lists former Soviet holidays."

Murashov said he would probably not have approved the restoration of the bust were he still the city's police chief because "Dzerzhinsky is not the type of person who should be revered."

Murashov has a gift for understatement. The Polish "Iron Felix" had a lot in common with the Inquisition's Torquemada, but with far less mercy.

The men Dzerzhinsky wanted for the Checka were to be "determined comrades - solid, hard men without pity - who are ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of the revolution."

"Just round up all the most resolute people you can, who understand that there is nothing more effective than a bullet in the head to shut people up. Experience has shown that you only need a small number of people like that the turn a whole situation around," declared Dzerzhinsky.

Dzerzhinsky was, however, more than a simple murderer. He was also a clever counterintelligence director who learned from his Tsarist predecessors, and developed the art of deception far beyond anything previously known. "

[Tailgunner Joe]

ping

[Just mythoughts]

Maybe they will put a bust of Putin next to it.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Ping to my good friend GarySpFc!

[cynwoody]

Is Beria next?

Here he is, with the boss's daughter.

[GOP_1900AD]

The flapper with the pistol - bizarre!

[Marine_Uncle]

"Dzerzhinsky is not the type of person who should be revered."

All I will say is no shit Sherlock. Of course not meant for you TJ.

[wagglebee]

Liberal politicians expressed worries that the return of the bust was a sign of a creeping return to the Soviet system.

Wow! They're catching on quick.

[GarySpFc]

City police chief Vladimir Pronin approved the request of a group of retired police officers to return the bust during a meeting with them Friday, former city police chief Arkady Murashov said.

Wow, Chicken Little is screaming the sky is falling. Take a look at the above sentence, and you will see it was at the request of a group of RETIRED POLICE OFFICERS. There is no difference between that and the 20 +60 year old members of the communist party you see marching in Red Square every afternoon with their flags. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to see similiar events in the Peoples Democratic Republics of Washington and Hawaii. There are always a few nuts everywhere, and a few who believe they have power.

[GarySpFc]

In another 5 years or so the statue will disappear. Lenin will disappear sometime in the not too distant future too.

[M. Espinola]

It's too bad Putin and his KGB cronies would disappear.

[M. Espinola]

Putin's Neo-Soviet Hero

Back in the USSR - With a Vengeance!

[strategofr]

"This is like retired German police officers requesting a bust of Himmler in their headquarters."

Exactly. Fortunately, the Nazi regime was utterly destroyed.

The Soviet regime was not. Golitsyn provides much insight. Much of "peristroika" was a fake.

From an article in the Wall Street Journal, page 1, Wednesday, February 23, 2005:

"Mr. Putin him self served more than 15 years in the KGB and later headed its successor, the FSB. Since taking over the Kremlin in 2000, he has presided over an unprecedented influx of ex-KGB men into the upper echelons of power---men whose formative years were spent learning how to undermine the West's interests.

Prominent among the ex-KGB officials who now pace the Kremlin's corridors are Defense minister Sergei Ivanov, Interior Minister Rahid Nurgaliev, and FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev, as well as the heads of Russia's arms-export, defense-procurement, and drug-enforcement agencies. A close Putin aide and former KGB man, Victor Ivano, serves on the board of flagship airline OAO Aeroflot. A favorite parlor game in Russia is to divine which other senior officials and businessmen have suspicious gaps in their resume that suggest a past with the intelligence services."

[strategofr]

Thanks for the ping.