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“Putin is resurrecting all the worst of the Soviet era evil-doers, including even Felix Dzerzhinsky. Moscow’s intention of subsuming all of Europe to Russian hegemony survives to this day. “

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Well said.
Even Churchill could not have said it any better!

OK you two! You have outed yourselves. I had to Google the name Felix Dzerzhinsky to find out that he was an obscure Bolshevik from the Russian Revolution and died in 1926.

I don't give a rat's azz about your petty foreign grudges. No American would or should know the name Felix Dzerzhinsky. Stop it! Just stop it! I don't care about your thousand year grudge. Even the Hatfields and McCoys get along with each other nowadays.

I had to Google the name Felix Dzerzhinsky to find out that he was an obscure Bolshevik from the Russian Revolution and died in 1926.

If you Gurgled the name you know what his role in the early years of the Communist repression of Russia was. For those who haven't, "Iron Felix" was the Bolshevik founder of the Soviet secret police, first known as Cheka and later as the OGPU, ultimately the KGB.

Not exactly obscure. He carried out the "Red Terror" to destroy all opposition to Lenin, (which was much more than most people know). No-one knows how many people were summarily executed, but it was well over a million. Simultaneously he commanded the Bolshevik genocide against the Cossacks.

This is the guy that Putin is putting back on a pedestal in front of the KGB (now SVR) building in Moscow. A mass murderer. Nice.

I don't give a rat's azz about your petty foreign grudges.

To paraphrase somebody famous: You may not be interested in reality, but reality is interested in you.

OK, I am American born, never set foot in Europe, and am going to make a guess on Felix Dzerzhinsky. 85 year old memory flash says early Soviet secret police boss. Secret Police called Cheka. Info popped into my brain, as I looked at your sentence. Now to Google and see if old brain is right.

Here is what Google had to say about Dzerzhinsky:

“Who was Felix Dzerzhinsky and what did he do?
Felix Dzerzhinsky - Wikipedia
From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the Red Terror and de-Cossackization.”

Head of Soviet secret police, hardly an obscure Russian Bolshevik. He had 9 years to strike terror into the heart of many Russians and make sure a lot of them died, to be sure the Bolsheviks came out on top. I was not aware of his being an architect of de-Cossackization, but that certainly makes him a fit figure for any discussion of Russian behavior toward Ukraine with its history of a Cossack population in a significant area of the country. Surprised the 85 year brain can still pop out obscure facts like that, maybe I should run for president? ;-)