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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.

No! I only got to the point where I saw that it was some obscure Russian who died in 1926 and stopped reading because it is irrelevant to anything happening in this day and age. It is about as relevant as Francis' fixation on the importance of France in the American Revolution (not).

Totally obscure. Get back in your time machine and dial it to sometime between 1917 and 1987. Nobody wants you here.