Posted on 09/24/2014 10:06:19 AM PDT by C19fan
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree restoring the title "Dzerzhinsky Division" to an elite police unit that was previously named after the founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Interior Ministry's internal troops press service said Monday.
Felix Dzerzhinsky founded the Cheka, a security apparatus notorious for orchestrating mass summary executions during the Russian Civil War and the Red Terror. Established in 1924, the unit bore his name from 1926 until 1994, when its name was changed to the Independent Operational Purpose Division, the press service said. The Dzerzhinsky Division ensured security at the Potsdam Conference of 1945 and the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. It was also dispatched to the restive regions of Nagorno-Karabakh, North Ossetia and Chechnya upon the demise of the Soviet Union.
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“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
If he was a REAL man he’d bring back the Preobrajensky Guard.
Where are the FR Putin supporters today?
Due to budget cutbacks we won’t see the Semenovski Guards anytime soon.
Well, we have an “alive” former impeached perverted President honored and paid to mount the stage before his fans, and may possibly be “naming” his murderous wife (Bengazi etc.) as Pres. of our country in the next election, with few if any objecting that they are even still in the game.
At least he didn’t name it after Beria....
Isaiah 5:20(NASB)
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Just d-mn!
Once a Chekist always a Chekisf...
Note that in the early days, the Bolsheviks tended to use Non-Russians (Dzerzhinsky was a Pole), for the most brutal jobs.
Kind of like someday those illegal immigrants we’re letting in will be doing the same things here.
No, man, it's just like the swastikas and SS symbols of the Azov brigade, something to scare and intimitate. As I was told about Nazi symbols in Ukrainian units, "it don't mean nothin', not a thing".
Either that or it's time for the double standard BS to end and for people to admit there are government backed thugs and murders in both camps instead of pretending the Kiev Koup Kiddies are pure as wind driven snow.
You just can't have it both ways.
Oh I don’t know. Lavrentiy has a certain ring to it.
The US Dept. of Justice probably has the name reserved.
They’re here, scroll down.
"just like"
I don't think that term means what you think it means.
Coming soon on Russia Today - “Lavrenty and Shirsky”, the zany adventures of two Cheka employees!
People who do nothing but regurgitate and try to defend Kiev Koup Kiddies press releases don’t think, period.
I'm here.
Putin is courageous to name this unit after the misunderstood Felix Dzerzhinsky. It is about time that the lies about Dzerzhinsky were put to rest.
I had it both ways at an orgy once.
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